Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Samson

Edited with Notes and Introduction by Mary T. Hansbury; Translated by Dana Miller

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 Samson. 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.

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Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4290-9

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Publication Status: In Print

Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity63

Publication Date: Apr 30,2021

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 76

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4290-9

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	Contributor	Biography
	DanaMiller
	MaryHansbury	Mary T. Hansbury, retired, has taught at La Salle University in Philadelphia and at Bethlehem University in Palestine. Her Ph.D. is from Temple University with additional work done in Jewish studies at Hebrew University and Syriac at Princeton University. She has previously published translations of St. Ephrem, Jacob of Serug, Isaac the Syrian, John of Dalyatha and is currently translating the CSCO edition (2011) of Isaac 3.

Introduction (1)
Outline (1)
Summary (7)

Text and Translation (9)
Thy Mysteries are revealed from the readings (10)
Samson rich in parables and mysteries (14)
The righteous, rich in the revelation of the Divinity (16)
...Samson, who went into the land of the Philistines...our Lord, who came to espouse the daughter of the pagans (20)
A comb of honey appeared in the lion, a great parable which could not be interpreted save in our Lord (26)
Samson: beautiful; odious; defiled (30)
Samson and the foxes (32)
Samson sets the region on fire (36)
Samson thirsts and the Lord provides (38)
Samson and the harlot (40)
Sheol: the Lord; Samson (42)
Samson enabled by the mysteries of his Lord (46)
Samson and Delilah (48)
Samson to be a mirror (54)
Samson shaven, blinded and made a laughing stock unto the Philistines (56)
Samson’s prayer of contrition and granted his request (60)

Bibliography of Works Cited (65)

Index (69)

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