Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Jephthah's Daughter: Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on Jephthah's daughter invisages this single, virginal female as a prefiguration of Christ. Jacob also discusses the history of blood sacrifice and on the qualities that render Jephthah's action priestly. The volume constitutes a fa...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press [2010]
Series:Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 16
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on Jephthah's daughter invisages this single, virginal female as a prefiguration of Christ. Jacob also discusses the history of blood sacrifice and on the qualities that render Jephthah's action priestly. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain the original Syriac text of Jacob's surviving sermons, fully vocalized, alongside an annotated English translation
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (75 pages)
ISBN:9781463216245
DOI:10.31826/9781463216245

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