| | | 
| | | 
Customers who bought this book also bought: | Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on Elijah by Stephen Kaufman
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies on Elijah. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug. |
|  | Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel by Aaron Butts
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s 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 constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug. |
|  | Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on Elisha by Stephen Kaufman
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies on Elisha. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug. |
|  | Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Simon Peter, when our Lord said ‘Get behind me, Satan’ by Adam McCollum
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily on Simon Peter. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug. |
|  | Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Holy Sunday of the Pentecost by Thomas Kollamparampil
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Holy Sunday of the Pentecost. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume constitutes a fascicle of Gorgias’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug. |
|
| |
| previous | up | next
|
Mathews Jr., Edward G. Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The First Day
 E-mail this product to a friend
| Title: | Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The First Day | | Subtitle: | Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug | | Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 27 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
| |
| Fascicle 29 | | Edited and Translated by Edward G. Mathews Jr. | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-323-6 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publication Date: | 9/2009 | | Language: | English and Syriac | | Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in | | Pages: | 76 |
In this homily, Jacob essentially insists on two main themes: that God–and God alone!–is the creator of everything that exists; and that everything that exists was created by God from nothing. Not to acknowledge these two fundamental principles leads inevitably to idolatry, an idolatry into which the world had already plunged when God chose to reveal Himself and the mystery of His creation to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
About the Series 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 homilies on the Six Days 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 Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. Table of Contents
- Table of Contents (page 7)
- List of Abbreviations (page 9)
- Introduction (page 11)
- Outline (page 11)
- Summary (page 13)
- Text and Translation (page 15)
- I. Prayer for Grace to Describe Gods Creation (page 16)
- II. The Minds Ascent into Heaven (page 22)
- III. The Indescribable Goodness of God (page 28)
- IV. God Creates the World from Nothing (page 32)
- V. God Brings into Being the Hosts of Heaven (page 36)
- VI. The Angelic Hosts Praise their Creator (page 42)
- VII. Creation Perfected in the Holy Trinity (page 44)
- VIII. David, Ezekiel, and Daniel Tell of the Angels (page 46)
- IX. The Prophets Witness to the Heavenly Beings (page 50)
- X. All Scripture Testifies that God is Creator (page 54)
- XI. God Created the World in Six Days (page 58)
- XII. The Creation of Darkness and Wind (page 62)
- XIII. The Creation of Light (page 66)
- Bibliography of Works Cited (page 75)
- (A) Ancient Sources (page 75)
- Basil 65 (page 75)
- Ephrem (page 75)
- Jacob of Sarug (page 75)
- Narsai (page 76)
- (B) Secondary Works (page 76)
- Index of Names and Themes (page 79)
- Index of Biblical References (page 81)
| |
| | Mathews Jr., Edward G. Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The First Day | | ISBN: | 978-1-60724-323-6 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $35.00 | | To get the 5% Gorgias BiblioPerks™ discount, simply login. | |
|
|
