Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Jephthah’s Daughter

Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1624-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 75 Seiten

Reihe: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook

Münz-Manor, Ophir

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 7)
- Introduction (page 9)
- Outline (page 9)
- Jacob's Exegesis of Judges 11 (page 9)
- Summary (page 12)
- Text and Translation (page 15)
- Concerning Jephthah's 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. Jephthah's Vow (page 26)
- 5. The Battle (page 30)
- 6. Jephthah's Victory (page 32)
- 7. The Bride of Blood (page 34)
- 8. Jephthah's Realization (page 38)
- 9. Justice Speaks (page 40)
- 10. Jephthah's Inner Battle (page 42)
- 11. Jephthah's Inner Victory (page 44)
- 12. The Daughter Responds (page 48)
- 13. The Daughter's Offering (page 50)
- 14. Death Trembles at her Courage (page 52)
- 15. Jephthah's Test Renewed (page 54)
- 16. The Daughter's Lamentation (page 56)
- 17. The Lamentation Completed (page 60)
- 18. The Poet's Task (page 60)
- 19. Jephthah's 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)