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	Jacob of Serugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When on January 10, 503 Amid was captured by the Persians after a three months' siege and all its citizens put to the sword or carried captive, a panic seized the whole district, and the Christian inhabitants of many neighbouring cities planned to leave their homes and flee to the west of the Euphrates.
		They were recalled to a more courageous frame of mind by the letters of Jacob In 519, at the age of 68, Jacob was made bishop of Batnan, another town in the district of Serugh, but only lived till November 521.
		Of Jacob's prose works, which are not nearly so numerous, the most interesting are his letters, which throw light upon some of the events of his time and reveal his attachment to the Monophysite doctrine which was then struggling for supremacy in the Syrian churches, and particularly at Edessa, over the opposite teaching of Nestorius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_of_Serugh (415 words)

	JACOB OF SERUGH - LoveToKnow Article on JACOB OF SERUGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JACOB OF SERUGH - LoveToKnow Article on JACOB OF SERUGH
		When on the 10th of January 503 Amid was captured by the Persians after a three months siege and all its citizcns put to the sword or carried captive, a panic seized the whole district, and the Christian inhabitants of many neighboring cities planned 7 Anaffirmativeanswerisgiven byWiseman (Horae syr.pp.
		of the Syriac Grammar of Jacob of Edessa, preface; Short Hist.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JACOB_OF_SERUGH.htm (237 words)

	Church at Amida
		Tomb of Jacob of Serugh in the church *
		Jacob avoided the theological controversies of his age, and is claimed with equal eagerness by Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians as one of their own.
		Called "the Flute of the Holy Spirit and Harp of the Blessed Faith" by his admirers, he was a master of the Syriac twelve-syllable verse form and the author of hundreds of religious poems and hymns; 760 homilies and the Syriac translation of Evagrius also are attributed to him.
	www.saintgregorios.org /PARAVUR/Amida.htm (562 words)

	Jacob of Edessa - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jacob of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Accordingly, having in anger publicly burnt a copy of the canons in front of Julian's residence, Jacob retired to the monastery of Kaisum near Samosata, and from there to the monastery of Eusebhong, where for eleven years he taught the Psalms and the reading of the Scriptures in Greek.
		Jacob was also the chief founder of the Syriac Massorah among the Monophysites, which produced such MSS.
		It is still a moot question how far Jacob is to be regarded as the author of the five vowel-signs derived from Greek which soon after came into use among the Jacobites.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Jacob-of-Edessa.html (1169 words)

	Jacob Of Serugh -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacob Riis was known as the “Emancipator of the Slums” because he shocked the United States with his photographs of slum conditions.
		The novelist and poet Jacob van Lennep was the leading man of letters in The Netherlands in the mid-19th century.
		Incidents in the life of a slave girl; Jacobs, Harriet A. Electronic edition of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, featuring a biographical sketch of Linda Brent describing her life in slavery.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043186 (652 words)

	JACOB OF JUTERBOGK - LoveToKnow Article on JACOB OF JUTERBOGK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benedict Stolzenhagen, known in religion as Jacob, was born at Juterbogk in Brandenburg of poor peasant stock.
		He became a Cistercian at the monastery of Paradiz in Poland, and was, sent by the abbot to the university of Cracow, where he became master in philosophy and doctor of theology.
		He lectured on theology at the university of Erfurt, of which he was rector in.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JACOB_OF_JUTERBOGK.htm (144 words)

	Is The Source Of Qur'an 18:60-65 The Alexander Romances?
		The origin of the fish episode, according to Friedländer, is a passage from the sermon on Alexander by Jacob of Serugh dated to early part of the sixth century; the dating is based on Jacob of Serugh's death in 521 CE.
		While the story in Q 18:60-65 has in common with the fish episode in Jacob of Serugh's sermon a fish whose escape is either made or noticed just before it is eaten, and mention of the some unusual water, it is not necessary to equate the two stories.
		The fish episode, found in the sermon of Jacob of Serugh, although not necessarily the source of Q 18:60-65, is also missing from Syriac Pseudo-Callisthenes.
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Quran/Sources/BBalex.html (4257 words)

	Jacob of Serugh -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Having been ordained to the priesthood, he became periodeutes or episcopal visitor of IJaura, in Sërugh, not far from his birthplace.
		They were recalled to a more courageous frame of mind by the letters of Jacob In (additional info and facts about 519) 519, at the age of 68, Jacob was made bishop of Batnan, another town in the district of Serugh, but only lived till November 521.
		Of his merits as a writer and poet we are now well able to judge from P Bedjan's excellent edition of selected metrical homilies, of which four volumes have already appeared (Paris 1905-1908), containing 146 pieces.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacob_of_serugh.htm (208 words)

	JACOB OF EDESSA - Online Information article about JACOB OF EDESSA
		(2) Jacob was the author both of commentaries and of scholia on the sacred books ; of these specimens are given by Assemani and Wright.
		The treatise De causa omnium causarum, which was the work of a bishop of Edessa, was formerly attributed to Jacob; but the publication of the whole by Kayser has made it clear that the treatise is of much later date.
		Jacob impresses the modern reader mainly as an educator of his countrymen, and particularly of the clergy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JACOB_OF_EDESSA.html (1417 words)

	Vatican Syriac 252 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Br = Brock, Sebastian P. "The Published Verse Homilies of Isaac of Antioch, Jacob of Serugh, and Narsai: Index of Incipits." Journal of Semitic Studies 32 (1987): 279-313.
		From their incipits, these memre can be identified as the final four from the ten memre cycle on Joseph by Jacob of Serugh.
		A spiritual homily by Saint Ephrem on war (elsewhere, attributed to Jacob of Serugh, On Job).
	cpart.byu.edu /Vatican/vatican252.php (322 words)

	Church History Links for The Christian Empire-- 313-476 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Notable poets of the School of Edessa are Jacob of Serugh and Narsai.
		Jacob of Sarug (Serugh) is a central figure of Syriac literature who is remembered as a master commentator on scripture.
		Jacob united the Ephraemian tradition with the Alexandrian tradition in the exegetical domain: finding Christ throughout the Bible.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/bible/celinks.stm (1934 words)

	JACOB OF SERUGH - Online Information article about JACOB OF SERUGH
		JACOB OF SERUGH, one of the best See also:
		Having been ordained to the priesthood, he became periodeutes or episcopal visitor of Ilaura, in Serugh, not far from his birthplace.
		frame of mind by the letters of Jacob.' In 519, at the age of 68, Jacob was made See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JACOB_OF_SERUGH.html (652 words)

	Jacob of Serugh, Homily extracts, tr. by R.H.Connolly. The Downside Review 27 (1908) pp.278-287
		By DOM HUGH CONNOLLY, O.S.B. JACOB, the "gentle and studious" Bishop of Batnan, chief city of Serûgh, a district which lay a little to the east of the river Euphrates, and south-west of Edessa, was born at the village of Kurtam on the Euphrates in the year 451 a.d.
		Jacob was a Monophysite; but he seldom alludes to the great controversy of his day.
		So little are his writings tainted with the heresy of Eutyches that, like those of his Nestorian contemporary Narsai, many of them are at the present day published without retouching for the use of the Catholic Syrians.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/jacob_serugh_homily_extracts.htm (4388 words)

	Early Christian Writers II
		Mar Jacob of Serugh Bibliography at the Syriac Hypertext Project.
		Jacob of Voragine: The Life of St. Cecilia: William Caxton translation, 1483.
		Jacob of Serugh: Homily on Guria and Shamuna.
	www.catholic-jhb.org.za /links/st_pachomiusII.htm (3852 words)

	TAYLOR: IVth World Syriac Conference, SEERI, Kottayam, Kerala, 6-12 Sep 1998.
		These included an examination of the Old Testament citations in the memre of Jacob of Serugh, and studies of the Peshitta Old Testament and its rivals; the Psalm Commentary of Daniel of Salah; Jacob of Edessa's exegesis of Genesis; symbols of authority in the Old Testament; and the New Testament canon.
		Several papers addressed ecumenical issues, and others engaged with linguistic matters such as the influence of Syriac on the vocabulary of the languages of South India, the revival of Classical Syriac as a living language, the future of Syriac lexicography, and the technical terminology of the Syriac Pharmacopoeia.
		Particular mention should, however, be made of a longer illustrated presentation given by Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Jacob Thekeparampil concerning Syriac manuscripts and inscriptions in Kerala.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol2No1/HV2N1CRTaylor.html (909 words)

	JACOB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Search the JACOB Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the JACOB Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named JACOB at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/J/JACOB.htm (81 words)

	St. Pachomius Library: James (Jacob) of Serugh (Serug, Sarugh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pachomius Library: James (Jacob) of Serugh (Serug, Sarugh)
		James (or Jacob) of Serugh, Bishop of Batnæ
		Richard E. McCarron: An Epiphany of Mystical Symbols: Jacob of Sarug's Memra 109 on Abraham and His Types:
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xjas-serugh.html (196 words)

	phuket.ca - Mar Jacob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		?Congregation B?nai Jacob (Conservative), 7227 Bittersweet Moors Drive, will hear Rabbi Tovia Singer, author (?Let?s Get Biblical?) and founder of Outreach Judaism, at 7:30 p.m.
		CAREY, George At Headwaters Health Care Centre, Orangeville, on Sunday, November 6, 2005, George Carey, Orangeville, in his 69th year, beloved husband of Beth Carey.
	www.phuket.ca /Mar-Jacob/reference/fullview/wikipedia/932068 (285 words)

	The Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Boston
		Homily by Mar Jacob of Serugh on Elisseus and the King of Moab Who Sacrificed His Son on the Wall.
		Homily by Mar Jacob on New Sunday, and on Thomas the Apostle.
		Homily by Mar Jacob on the Church and Rachel, and on Leah and the Synagogue.
	www.homb.org /frame-TrueVine.htm (786 words)

	Cedar Park Church - Epiphany Sunday, Longer Explanation
		For Jacob, the proof of his argument is that the Spirit appeared only after Jesus ascended out of the water.
		In Jacob's case we are not left to wonder.
		It is worth noting that no one responds to Jacob by saying Jesus was in the water when the Spirit descended upon him.
	www.cedarpark.org /CedarParkFtp/2000/epiplong.htm (5557 words)

	Understanding Islam Community - Who was Dhu'l-Qarnayn? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The dating of the Christian Legend (attributed to Jacob to Serugh) was based on the study of its internal evidence.
		Recent extensive studies on the influence by Syriac Pseudo-Callisthenes on Qur'an 18:60-102 (which includes the story of Dhul-Qarnayn) by Wheeler have shown that it was the Qur'anic commentaries and not the Qur'an that adopted the Alexander stories among other near eastern stories to explain the verses 18:60-102.
		It has been claimed by Nöldeke and subsequent scholarship that the Qur'anic story of Dhul-Qarnayn was borrowed from the Christian Legend attributed to Jacob of Serugh.
	forums.understanding-islam.org /community/printthread.php?t=672 (2859 words)

	Vatican Syriac 117 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another Memra by Jacob of Serugh on the Mother of God.
		George, a Disciple of Jacob of Serugh: On Jacob of Serugh.
		[In the Meter of] Mor Jacob [and] Mor Balai.
	cpart.byu.edu /Vatican/vatican117.php (1295 words)

	Syriac Hypertext Project Demo: Jacob of Serugh, Mar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Projects/SHT/Jacob_Serugh.html (254 words)

	Commentaries on the Bible
		John of Apamea (whose life is obscure) wrote a commentary on Ecclesiastics.
		Jacob of Serugh (died 521), a famous poet, belongs to this list since many of his poems are indeed Biblical commentaries.
		The Catholicos of the Church of the East Isho' bar Nun (823-828) produced a commentary on the whole Bible.
	sor.cua.edu /Bible/Commentaries.html (277 words)

	Interpretation and the Bible, The Schools of Alexandria, Antioch, and Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The evidence for this comes from a verse panegyric by Jacob of Serugh,...
		Narsai was first the head of the theological school at Edessa; later he went to Nisibis.
		Jacob of Serugh was a younger contemporary of Narsai who attended the School of Edessa.
	gbgm-umc.org /UMW/Bible/cei.stm (881 words)

	The True Vine
		Foremost among these are the Homilies of Mar Jacob of Serugh, a sixth century author who wrote many metrical homilies in Syriac.
		Another translation, this one from Russian and appearing in serial form, is Sursky's book on Saint John of Kronstadt, the renowned wonder-working priest of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
		A Homily on Samson, by Mar Jacob of Serugh.
	htmadmin.phpwebhosting.com /truevine.htm (479 words)

	St. Ephraem - Faith Adoring the Mystery - Mary C. Sheridan - Theandros - Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology ...
		Much of the work that is attributed to Ephraem that has a polemical character is attributed, at least by one writer, to his admirers who most likely established a "certain school tradition" where works were written by others in his style and attributed to him because of his popularity.
		A note of interest to today's scholars--particularly women scholars: Ephraem "insisted women take their rightful place in the church's choirs" and was referred to by Jacob of Serugh as a " 'second Moses for women.' "
		Regarding Jacob of Serugh who lived in the 500s: Although he was a member of the "Monophysite body," he [Jacob of Serugh] "does not appear to have been actively involved in the trouble of the times." See O'Leary, pp.
	www.theandros.com /ephraem.html (2627 words)

	On The Sources Of The Qur'anic Dhul-Qarnayn
		In the Western scholarhip, the issue of Dhul-Qarnayn's identity was finally brought to a close by Nöldeke who established that Dhul-Qarnayn was none other than Alexander and the source of the Qur'anic narrations was the Syrian Christian Legend ascribed to Jacob of Serugh (d.
		The dating of the Christian Legend was based on the study of its internal evidence.
		Czeglédy, using Kmoskó's thesis, also argued that the Christian Legend and metrical discourse of Jacob of Serugh came into its final form after 628 CE and that this argument is conclusive:
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Quran/Sources/BBhorned.html (1961 words)

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