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Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel
Fascicle 15: Translation and Introduction by Aaron Michael Butts
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| Title: | Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel | | Subtitle: | Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug | | Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 21 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| Fascicle 15 | | Translation and Introduction by Aaron Butts | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-000-6 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publication Date: | 7/2009 | | Language: | English and Syriac_DO NOT USE | | Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in | | Pages: | 68 |
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 The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. Table of Contents
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Acknowledgements (page 7)
- Introduction (page 9)
- Text and Translation (page 15)
- I. Proem introducing God's mercy in the form of discipline (page 16)
- II. The rebellion of humanity (page 20)
- III. The cause of the rebellion at Babel (page 24)
- IV. The weariness and suffering that resulted from the rebellion (page 28)
- V. The people's act of rebellion and God's merciful response of discipline (page 34)
- VI. God descends to see the construction of the tower and decides to scatter the people of Babel (page 36)
- VII. Interpretation of 'Come, let us descend' (page 40)
- VIII. Defense that God has a Son (page 42)
- IX. The Son was revealed at the scattering of the people of Babel because it was a creative act (page 46)
- X. The creative acts of the Son (page 50)
- XI. The confusion resulting from the divided languages (page 54)
- XII. God's scattering of the people was an act of mercy (page 60)
- XIII. Recapitulation of God's mercy in the form of discipline (page 62)
- Bibliography of Works Cited (page 69)
- Index of Names and Themes (page 71)
- Index of Biblical References (page 72)
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| Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel
Fascicle 15: Translation and Introduction by Aaron Michael Butts | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-000-6 | | Weight: | 1.2 LBS. | | Price: | $35.00 | |
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