Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel

Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1580-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 68 Seiten

Reihe: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the Tower of Babel develops an extended word-play between “morduto” ‘rebellion’ and “marduto” ‘discipline.’ As is characteristic of Jacob, the characters, their personalities, and their motivations are developed far more than they are in the biblical narrative. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Butts, Aaron Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Predigten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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)