ENGLISH

Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Sinful Woman

By Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781463234829
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2622681 bytes)
Series
Texts from Christian Late Antiquity; 31
Pages
138\138
Time added
2023-05-29 03:58:35

Description

This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the sinful woman who anoints Jesus at the banquet – widely identified in the west as Mary Magdalene – focuses on the theme of weeping which Jacob describes as the dominant characteristic of repentence. For him, the sinful woman is the example of true Christian contrition. 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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