Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Jephthah’s Daughter

Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug

Translation and Introduction by Susan Ashbrook Harvey & Ophir Münz-Manor

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.

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Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-60724-071-6

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Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity22

Publication Date: Jan 1,2010

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 75

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-60724-071-6

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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 Jephthah’s Daughter. 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.

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	Contributor	Biography
	SusanHarvey	Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. She has published extensively on Syriac and Byzantine Christianity, and has a particular interest in women and their representation in ancient Christianity.
	Ophir Münz-Manor

Table of Contents (page 7)
Introduction (page 9)

Outline (page 9)
Jacobs Exegesis of Judges 11 (page 9)
Summary (page 12)

Text and Translation (page 15)
Concerning Jephthahs Daughter by the Holy Mar Jacob of the Teacher (page 16)
1. Opening Invocation (page 16)
2. The History of Sacrifice (page 20)
3. Jephthah and the War with the Ammonites (page 24)
4. Jephthahs Vow (page 26)
5. The Battle (page 30)
6. Jephthahs Victory (page 32)
7. The Bride of Blood (page 34)
8. Jephthahs Realization (page 38)
9. Justice Speaks (page 40)
10. Jephthahs Inner Battle (page 42)
11. Jephthahs Inner Victory (page 44)
12. The Daughter Responds (page 48)
13. The Daughters Offering (page 50)
14. Death Trembles at her Courage (page 52)
15. Jephthahs Test Renewed (page 54)
16. The Daughters Lamentation (page 56)
17. The Lamentation Completed (page 60)
18. The Poets Task (page 60)
19. Jephthahs Sacrifice (page 64)
A soghitha on the upright Jephtha and on his daughter, by Mar Isaac (page 71)
Index of Names and Themes (page 79)
Index of Biblical References (page 81)

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