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Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Tamar (Gen 38)
No full textThis small volume contains an edition (from Vatican ms. 117) of Jacob of Sarug’s homily on Tamar (420 lines long). The full title is “On Tamar and on the Mystery of the Church.” The biblical narrative on which the poem is based (Gen 38) gives Jacob the opportunity to discuss various women in the early part of biblical history and in Jesus’ lineage, as well as the fact that a woman who is called a prostitute is in that lineage. Jacob explains how Scripture’s language is used in this regard
Jacob of Serugh's Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre
No full textThis fascinating volume contains excerpts from four otherwise unedited (and untranslated) homilies from Jacob of Sarug on the theatre. These homilies, extant only in a single manuscript (BM Add. 17158), which is unfortunately poorly preserved, are unique for the light they cast on the Greek theatre in the Byzantine period. In this article, originally published in Le Muséon 48 (1935), Moss gives a substantive introduction to the selections presented from these homilies, and then presents the texts in Syriac and in English translation. Scholars and readers interested in Syriac literature, and in Jacob of Sarug in particular, as well as students of the history of the theatre, will find this work of great interest.Translated into English from the Syriac text
Jacob Viner’s Reminiscences from the New Deal (February 11, 1953)
No full textThis paper presents and reproduces an unpublished oral history interview given by Jacob Viner in 1953. The interview released by Viner for the Columbia Oral History Project gives us a valuable opportunity to throw light on his advisory activity during the New Deal Era. In our introduction we attempt to make a critical appraisal of Viner's reminiscences and to state the contribution they can provide to our general knowledge of the period. In addition, we also attempt to find out some biographical and interpretative elements useful to understand Viner’s own vision and his contribution to important economic policy processes during the New Deal.
Jacob Weisberg, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, a unit of the Washington Post Co. devoted to developing Web-based publications. Weisberg joined Slate as chief political correspondent shortly after its founding in 1996. He succeeded Michael Kinsley to become Slate\u27s second editor from 2002-08, when he handed the job over to David Plotz. Before joining Slate, Weisberg wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, The Bush Tragedy, was a New York Times best-seller in 2008. He is co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World (2003)
Jacob Taubes: messianism and political theology after the Shoah
No full textSince the publication of Die politische Theologie des Paulus at the beginning of the 1990s1 – the text of the seminar on the Letter to the Romans which Jacob Taubes held at Heidelberg in 1987 shortly before dying – a slow but progressive rediscovery of this author, as ingenious as he is uncomfortable, began within the intellectual landscape of the end of the last century. This rediscovery is at the core of this paper
Diatessaron in the Syriac Acts of John / Jacob of Serug and the Diatessaron
No full textThis volume contains two short studies, originally printed in the Journal of Theological Studies, on the Diatessaron and Syriac literature. In the first, Connolly examines the evidence on the data and order of two biblical passages in the Syriac Acts of John in comparison with some other places in Syriac literature, such as Ephrem’s commentary on the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac Gospels, and Solomon of Basra’s Book of the Bee. In the second investigation, he looks at some material from Jacob of Serug showing his use of the Diatessaron or Old Syriac Gospels over against the Peshitta. Both studies suggest some lines of alteration that had taken place in the Arabic Diatessaron. Readers who study the history of the Gospels in Syriac and their reception and use in Syriac literature will find these two studies of interest
Themanummer Jacob van Lennep
No full textRather than aiming at an elegy or a biography of Jacob van Lennep (1802-1868), the popular nineteenth-century Dutch poet and novelist, this special issue of De Negentiende Eeuw takes Van Lennep’s life and work only as viewpoints on nineteenth-century Dutch culture and society as a whole. It consists of the texts of five Jacob van Lennep Lectures, held in Amsterdam since 2009. Generally speaking, the articles discuss three themes: the role of a literary author in public debate and society, the applicability of the concept of ‘Romanticism’ to the Netherlands, and some intellectual forms of historicism from the Netherlands and Europe
Themanummer Jacob van Lennep
No full textRather than aiming at an elegy or a biography of Jacob van Lennep (1802-1868), the popular nineteenth-century Dutch poet and novelist, this special issue of De Negentiende Eeuw takes Van Lennep’s life and work only as viewpoints on nineteenth-century Dutch culture and society as a whole. It consists of the texts of five Jacob van Lennep Lectures, held in Amsterdam since 2009. Generally speaking, the articles discuss three themes: the role of a literary author in public debate and society, the applicability of the concept of ‘Romanticism’ to the Netherlands, and some intellectual forms of historicism from the Netherlands and Europe
Deux homèlies inédites de Jacques de Saroug
No full textPaul Bedjan’s massive edition of Jacob of Sarug’s homilies (5 vols. originally, with an additional volume in the Gorgias reprint) made no claim to be complete, and Syriac scholars continued to publish Jacob’s works as they became known from sources not used by Bedjan. In this work, which first appeared in Mélanges de l'Université Saint Joseph, the Jesuit scholar Paul Mouterde presents the Syriac text, with French translation, of two previously unedited homilies from Jacob of Sarug: “On Mary and Golgotha,” and “On Strangers and their Burial.” The first homily deals especially with the Incarnation.Syriac text with French translation
Jacob Böhme and His World
No full textJacob Böhme (1575–1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. Jacob Böhme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Böhme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and social context and the intellectual currents of his time, including Böhme’s writing as literature, the social conditions in Görlitz, Böhme’s correspondence networks, a contemporary “crisis of piety,” Paracelsian and kabbalistic currents, astrology, astronomy and alchemy, and his relationship to other dissenting authors. Relevant facets of reception include Böhme’s philosophical standing, his contributions to pre-Pietism, and early English translations of his works
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