This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the Veil of Moses asks what the veil means. Jacob finds the hermeneutical key in Paul’s exegesis of Gen. 2:24 – that the man and the woman becoming one symbolizes Christ and the Church. The bride must wear a veil until such time as her bridegroom comes to remove it at their marriage ceremony. 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.
| ISBN: | 9781593336448 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2009 |
| Author: | Sebastian Brock |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 76 pages |
| Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity |
| Genres: |
Christianity Sermons |