Jacob of Serugh - ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܣܪܘܓ

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Poet, known as ‘the Flute of the Holy Spirit and the Harp of the Church’; bp. of Baṭnan da-Srug (519–21).1

Names

  • ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܣܪܘܓ
  • Jacob of Serugh
  • ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܒܛܢܢ ܕܣܪܘܓ6
  • ܡܪܝ ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܣܪܘܓ ܡܠܦܢܐ4
  • ܡܳܪܝ ܝܰܥܩܘܒ ܕܰܣܪܘܓ ܡܰܠܦܳܢܐ4
  • مار يعقوب السروجي الملفان3
  • Jacobus Sarugensis13
  • Jacob of Batnae18
  • Jacob of Sarug5
  • Jacob of Serūg18
  • Jacques de Saroug6
  • JACQUES DE SAROUG7
  • Serugh
  • Yaqub of Serugh
  • Yaʾqōḇ d-ḇatnān da-Srūg6
  • Yaʿqōb d-Batnān da-Srug
  • Ya‘qub of Serugh
  • Jacob of Serugh
  • Jacques de Serugh6
  • Mar Jacob of Sarug , the Malphono2
  • Yaʿqub of Serugh1

Birth

ca. 451 Kurtam

Death

521

Sex

male7

Event

The saint is venerated on 25 November (25 Teshri II). 7, 9

Notes

Status: draft  Is this record complete?

Works Cited

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  • 1 S. P. Brock, "Yaʿqub of Serugh." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 433-435.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003)., entry: 38, p: 255.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987)., p: 219.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991)., p: 246.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: Jacob of Sarug.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 6, 8, 96, 132, 181, 182, 736, 737, 740, 741, 742, 746, 748, 749, 750, 751, 752, 753, 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 765, 779, 858, 859, 894, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 988, 989, 991, 993, 995, 997, 998, 1088, 1143, 1225, 1263, 1268, 1295, 1308, 1309, 1329, 1342, 1346, 1418, 1419, 1420, 1436, 1437, 1438, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1566, 1673, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1754, 1758, 1761, 1762, 1783, 1806, 1810, 1812, 1819, 1824, 1868, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2010, 790, 791, 880, 900, 901, 1209, 1757, 1984, 2027.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 228.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Joannes Baptista Abbeloos, De vita et scriptis Sancti Jacobi, Batnarum Sarugi in Mesopotamia episcopi, cum ejusdem Syriacis carminibus duobus integris ac aliorum aliquot fragmentis, necnon Georgii ejus discipuli oratione panegyrica (Lovanii: Vanlinthout Fratres / Bonnae: Adolphum Marcus, 1867)., p: 24-103.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 413-14.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Isaac Barsaum, al-Lu'lu' al-manṯūr fī ta'rīh al-‘ulūm wa-l-ādāb al-suryānīya (Histoire de la littérature syriaque), 2nd ed. (Aleppo, 1956)., p: 273-80.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 1027-28.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, mit Ausschluss der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922)., p: 148-158.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 13 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965)., section: 39.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 14 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719)., p: 283-340.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 15 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 62-63.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 16 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: A. and C. Black, 1894)., p: 67-72.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 17 Sebastian P. Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, Mōrān ’Eth’ō 9 (Baker Hill, Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 1997), p: 30-31.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 18 William Wright, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum, Acquired since the Year 1838 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1870-1872)., vol: III, p: 1291-1294.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Jacob of Serugh — ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܣܪܘܓ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/42.

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Entry Title: Jacob of Serugh — ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܣܪܘܓ

Additional Credit:

  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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