On the Mother of God (Popular Patristics Series v19)

On the Mother of God (Second Print)

Jacob of Serug was born at Curtem on the Euphrates, a monk and priest. Early in life he began writing and is thought to have composed more than 700 homilies.

Jacob, "flute of the Holy spirit and harp of the faithful church," has a great love of the Mother of God. In this volume, four homilies have been chosen from the Syriac texts. The poetry is typological and rooted in Scripture. It offers, as Professor Brock notes in his introduction, an alternative to the "liberal critical approach to the bible" or to an excessively fundamentalist approach."