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@KEY = Jacob of Serugh, Mar
@BORN = b. 449 ?
@DIED = d. November 521
@ALSO = James of Serugh
@DATE = July 1993
@FILE = PLACES.HYP
@BY = ied
Bp of {Batnae} 519-21, and Syriac writer honoured for his verse works as the 'Flute of the Holy Spirit'. Son of a presbyter of Kurtam in Serugh, he trained for the priesthood at the {School of the Persians} in {Edessa} 469-73, where he may have been a contemporary of {Philoxenus}. He was then a monk at Haura and for many years an episcopal visitor for Serugh before being consecrated by the henophysite leaders {Severus of Antioch} and Philoxenus. He tried as far as he could to avoid christological controversy, though he wrote a few polemics to order. His disciple George wrote a verse panegyric.
Monastery.
There is a monastery at Beth Debeh.
Lit. Works.
1. A large body of poetic discourses on the Passion, on faith and on the Beatitudes. 2. A homily on the vision of Ezekiel. 3. On the fall of idols', concerning pagan cults. 4. 'On theatrical spectacles', an indictment of the theatre at Edessa. 5. A homily 'On the burial of strangers'. 6. A homily on {Simeon Stylites}. 7. Three homilies on the {Confessors}. 8. A life of Mar Hannina. 9. A life of {Daniel of Aghlosh}. 10. Anaphoras and offices of baptism and confirmation. 11. A letter to the persecuted Christians of {Himyar}. 12. A letter to {Stephen bar Sudaili}, prob. at Edessa, refuting his doctrine of the temporal duration of punishment. 13. Three letters to the Mar Bassus monks of Harim and a letter to {Paul of Edessa}, which manifest his henophysitism.
Bibliography
@BIBL = J.B.Segal, {Edessa}, Oxford, 1970, pp.170-3.
@BIBL = W.H.C.Frend, {Rise of the monophysite movement}, Cambridge, 1972, pp.242-3, 297.
@BIBL = A.Vööbus, {History of asceticism}, vol 3, in CSCO 500 Subsidia 81, Louvain, 1988, pp.110-22.
@BIBL = R.C.Chesnut, {Three monophysite christologies}, Oxford, 1976, pp.2-3, 6-7.
@BIBL = C.Vona in {New Catholic Encyclopedia}, vol 7, 1967, pp.792-3.
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Jacob of Serugh, Mar
b. 449 ?, d. November 521
Bp of BATNAE 519-21, and Syriac writer honoured for his verse works as the 'Flute of the Holy Spirit'. Son of a presbyter of Kurtam in Serugh, he trained for the priesthood at the SCHOOL OF THE PERSIANS in EDESSA 469-73, where he may have been a contemporary of PHILOXENUS. He was then a monk at Haura and for many years an episcopal visitor for Serugh before being consecrated by the henophysite leaders Severus of Antioch and Philoxenus. He tried as far as he could to avoid christological controversy, though he wrote a few polemics to order. His disciple George wrote a verse panegyric.Monastery. There is a monastery at Beth Debeh.
Lit. Works. 1. A large body of poetic discourses on the Passion, on faith and on the Beatitudes. 2. A homily on the vision of Ezekiel. 3. On the fall of idols', concerning pagan cults. 4. 'On theatrical spectacles', an indictment of the theatre at Edessa. 5. A homily 'On the burial of strangers'. 6. A homily on SIMEON STYLITES. 7. Three homilies on the CONFESSORS. 8. A life of Mar Hannina. 9. A life of DANIEL OF AGHLOSH. 10. Anaphoras and offices of baptism and confirmation. 11. A letter to the persecuted Christians of Himyar. 12. A letter to STEPHEN BAR Sudaili, prob. at Edessa, refuting his doctrine of the temporal duration of punishment. 13. Three letters to the Mar Bassus monks of Harim and a letter to Paul of Edessa, which manifest his henophysitism.
Bibliography . J. B. Segal, Edessa, Oxford, 1970, pp.170-3. W. H. C. Frend, Rise of the monophysite movement, Cambridge, 1972, pp.242-3, 297. A. Vööbus, History of asceticism, vol 3, in CSCO 500 Subsidia 81, Louvain, 1988, pp.110-22. R. C. Chesnut, Three monophysite christologies, Oxford, 1976, pp.2-3, 6-7. C. Vona in New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 7, 1967, pp.792-3.