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Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel
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| Title: | Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel | | Subtitle: | Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug: fascicle 15 | | Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 21 | | Availability: | In Press | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| Volume 21 | | By Aaron Michael Butts | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-000-6 | | Language: | English and Syriac | | Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in |
Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homily on the Tower of Babel. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. | |
| | Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-000-6 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $51.00 | | To get the 5% Gorgias BiblioPerks™ discount, simply login. | |
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