Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the six days of creation / The metrical homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug / general editor: Sebastian P. Brock, The second day

Edited And Translated By Edward G. Mathews Jr. In This Second Part Of Homily 71, On The Fashioning Of Creation, Jacob Treats The Making Of The Firmament: What It Was, Where It Was, What – As Far As Can Be Determined – Was Placed Above It And What Below It, Its Purpose And Utility For Humanity, And The Importance Of Its Place In The Genesis Account Of The Six Day Progression Of Creation. 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 The Metrical Homilies Of Mar Jacob Of Sarug, Which, When Complete, Will Contain All Of Jacob’s Surviving Sermons.--back Cover. Source Of Text: Homiliae Selectae Mar-jacobi Sarugensis / Edited By Paul Bedjan. (paris-leipzig : Harrassowitz, 1907, 2nd Ed. Piscataway, Nj : Gorgias Press, 2006), Vol. 3, Pp. 27-43 [homily 71b]. Lines: 322 [521-842]. The Metrical Homilies Of Mar Jacob Of Sarug--cover. Fascicle Number For Series The Metrical Homilies Of Mar Jacob Of Sarug Supplied By Publisher Gorgias Press Via E-mail June 21, 2016: For Some Reason, This Book Doesn't Have A Fascicle Number Printed In It, But It Has Been Assigned A Fascicle Number. The Number Is 34. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 39-41) And Indexes. Syriac Text And English Translation On Facing Pages; Introduction In English.

In this second part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the making of the firmament: what it was, where it was, what – as far as can be determined – was placed above it and what below it, its purpose and utility for humanity, and the importance of its place in the Genesis account of the six day progression of creation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 ABBREVIATIONS 9 INTRODUCTION 11 TEXT AND TRANSLATION 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED 49 INDEX OF NAMES AND THEMES 53 INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES 55