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Title

• Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Jephthah's daughter / translated with introduction by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Ophir Münz-Manor.

Author

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521

Publication

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Brock, Sebastian P.
• Harvey, Susan Ashbrook
• Harvey, Susan Ashbrook.
• Münz-Manor, Ophir.

Description

v, 73 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Metrical homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug ; fasc. 16
• Texts from Christian late antiquity, 1935-6846 ; 22

Uniform Title

• Homily on Jephthah's daughter. English & Syriac
• Metrical homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug fasc. 16.
• Texts from Christian late antiquity ; v. 22.

Alternative Title

Homily on Jephthah's daughter.

Subject

• Jacob, of Serug, 451-521
• Jephthah's daughter (Biblical figure) > Sermons

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• English and Syriac.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Outline -- Jacob's exegesis of Judges 11 -- Concerning Jephthah's daughter by the Holy Mar Jacob of the teacher. Opening invocation ; The history of sacrifice ; Jephthah and the war with the Ammonites ; Jephthah's vow ; The battle ; Jephthah's victory ; The bride of blood ; Jephthah's realization -- Justice speaks ; Jephthah's inner battle ; Jephthah's inner victory ; The daughter responds ; The daughter's offering ; Death trembles at her courage ; Jephthah's test renewed ; The daughter's lamentation ; The lamentation completed ; The poet's task ; Jephthah's sacrifice -- A soghitha on the upright Jephtha and on his daughter, by Mar Isaac / by Sebastian P. Brock.

ISBN

• 9781607240716
• 1607240718

LCCN

^^2009032529

OCLC

430344735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library