TY - BOOK ID - 91399791 TI - Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Tower of Babel AU - Jacob AU - Butts, Aaron Michael PY - 2009 SN - 9781607240006 PB - Piscataway (N.J.) : Gorgias press, DB - UniCat KW - Babel, Tower of KW - Sermons, Syriac KW - Sermons, Syriac. KW - Syriac poetry KW - Syriac poetry. KW - Babel, Tower of. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91399791 AB - This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the Tower of Babel develops an extended word-play between “morduto” ‘rebellion’ and “marduto” ‘discipline.’ As is characteristic of Jacob, the characters, their personalities, and their motivations are developed far more than they are in the biblical narrative. 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. ER -