TY - BOOK ID - 32935971 TI - Jacob of Serugh's Hexaemeron AU - Muraoka, Takamitsu AU - Peeters PY - 2018 SN - 9042934913 9789042934917 PB - Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters DB - UniCat KW - Creation KW - Creation. KW - Sermons, Syriac. KW - Jacob, KW - Bible. KW - Sermons, Syriac KW - 276 =923 JACOBUS SARUGENSIS KW - Syriac sermons KW - Biblical cosmogony KW - Cosmogony KW - Natural theology KW - Teleology KW - Beginning KW - Biblical cosmology KW - Creation windows KW - Creationism KW - Evolution KW - 276 =923 JACOBUS SARUGENSIS Patrologie syrienne--JACOBUS SARUGENSIS KW - 276 =923 JACOBUS SARUGENSIS Syrische patrologie--JACOBUS SARUGENSIS KW - Patrologie syrienne--JACOBUS SARUGENSIS KW - Syrische patrologie--JACOBUS SARUGENSIS KW - Sermons KW - Gen 1 (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Genesis 1 (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Sermons. KW - Création UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32935971 AB - A fifth-sixth century clergyman-cum-theologian, Jacob of Serugh (also spelled Sarug), was an extremely prolific writer. Not counting a number of works in prose he is said to have written nearly 800 homilies, mostly on themes of theological import or biblical stories and personalities. These homilies are composed in metre: each line has twelve vowels. So far less than 150 such homilies have been edited and/or translated. Hexaemeron is an exposition of the first six days of the universe. Jacob dedicated an extra homily to the sabbath, making a total of seven homilies. This genre was known earlier in Greek. Jacob's is the first of the kind in Syriac. Currently the only complete text of Jacob's Hexaemeron is available in an edition by Bedjan (1905-10), but with no translation. This is the first time that this highly interesting work is made available in its entirety, accompanied by an English translation. The editor studies six complete manuscripts and one containing only two homilies. None of these seven manuscrips was available to Bedjan, and one of them is presumably as old as the principal manuscript used by Bedjan. ER -