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Jacob of
Serugh (Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ ܣܪܘܓܝܐ, romanized: Yaʿquḇ Sruḡāyâ,
classical Syriac pronunciation: [ˌjaˤˈquβ sᵊˌruɣˈɒˌjɒ]; Latin:
Iacobus Sarugiensis; c...
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district is its 6th-century
Syriac bishop and poet-theologian
Jacob of
Serugh. The
Catholic Church hold the
bishopric as a
titular see of that church...
- Syriac-speaking
church tradition, the next most
famous after him
being Jacob of
Serugh and Narsai.
Ephrem was born
around the year 306 in the city of
Nisibis (modern...
- poet-theologians of the
early Church of the East,
perhaps equal in
stature to
Jacob of
Serugh, both
second only to
Ephrem the Syrian. He is
venerated as a
saint in all...
- and
other theological works. Two of his
eminent contemporaries Jacob of
Serugh (451-521) and
Philoxenus of
Mabbogh (d. 523),
wrote letters in condemnation...
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Himyarite king
Sharhabil Yakkuf (468–480 AD). Later, the
Syriac poet
Jacob of
Serugh wrote a
letter of
consolation to the
Christian community of
Najran (his...
- In the late 5th or
early 6th century,
Jacob of
Serugh wrote his
Homilies on the Hexaemeron,
being the
first known commentary on the
Genesis creation narrative...
- as
Ephrem the
Syrian and in the po****r
hexaemeral homilies of
Jacob of
Serugh. Chrysostom, one of the four
Great Church Fathers of the
Eastern Church...
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subject of the Life of Barsauma,
which was
recently translated.
Jacob of
Serugh also
composed a
homily about Barsauma. St
Barsauma was a
disciple of St...
- went on to be
written by
authors including Augustine of Hippo,
Jacob of
Serugh,
Jacob of Edessa, Bonaventure, and so on. The
framework interpretation (also...
