
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 entire seven-part homily on the Fashioning of Creation. 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 The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons.
Table of Contents (v)
Abbreviations (xi)
Preface (xiii)
Foreword (xv)
Introduction (1)
Previous Translations (6)
The First Day (8)
The Second Day (9)
The Third Day (10)
The Fourth Day (14)
The Fifth Day (16)
The Sixth Day (20)
The Seventh Day (28)
Summary (35)
Text and Translation (41)
The First Day (43)
The Second Day (103)
The Third Day (137)
The Fourth Day (177)
The Fifth Day (221)
The Sixth Day (265)
The Seventh Day (347)
Bibliography of Works Cited (399)
Primary Texts (399)
Secondary Works (406)
Index (411)
Names and Themes (411)
Biblical References (427)