New editions of Jacob of Sarug's homilies

SYRIAC WATCH: GORGIAS PRESS has published a number of new editions of the Syriac homilies of Jacob of Sarug. These two look particularly interesting:

Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Second Day
Edited and Translated by Edward G. Mathews Jr.
(Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 40)

Title: Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Second Day
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 40
Availability: In Print
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Edited and Translated by Edward G. Mathews Jr.
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0553-9
Availability: In Print
Publication Date: 1/2016
Language: English and Syriac
Format: Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in
Pages: 55

In this second part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation, Jacob treats the making of the firmament: what it was, where it was, what – as far as can be determined – was placed above it and what below it, its purpose and utility for humanity, and the importance of its place in the Genesis account of the six day progression of creation.

Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homilies on the Six Days of Creation. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s The Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons.

Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Chariot that Prophet Ezekiel Saw
Fascicle 14: Translation and Introduction by Alexander Golitzin; Edited with Notes by Mary T. Hansbury
(Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 3)

Title: Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Chariot that Prophet Ezekiel Saw
Subtitle: Metrical Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 3
Availability: In Print
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Fascicle 14
Translation and Introduction by Alexander Golitzin
Edited with Notes by Mary Hansbury
ISBN: 978-1-59333-735-3
Availability: In Print
Publication Date: 2/2016
Language: English and Syriac
Format: Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in
Pages: 169

Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac-English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homilies, this volume contains his homily on the Chariot which the Prophet Ezekiel saw. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons. In Syriac and English.