Jonah’s Oar: Christian Typology in Jacob of Serug’s Mēmrā 122 on Jonah

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Robert A.KitchenJonah’s Oar: Christian Typology in Jacob of Serug’s Mēmrā 122 on Jonahhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/R4VM6AIKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/R4VM6AIKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/R4VM6AIKHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies11:1200829-62Jacob of Serug’s longest memra - on Jonah (memra 122, P. Bedjan, ed., Homiliae Selectae, vol. 4: 368-490) - stretches for 123 pages. Slowly and poetically, Jacob proceeds through the original text verse by verse, but along the way interweaves an unabashedly Christian typology and interpretation of the prophet’s dilemmas and mission. The focus here is to present an outline of Jacob’s commentary and argument and reconstruct how he uses Christological typologies to present the Christian Gospel. Jacob is not a systematic theologian, but in this memra he has given himself enough space to build a full description of the Christian message in which Jonah becomes a type of Christ. Kitchen, Robert A. “Jonah’s Oar: Christian Typology in Jacob of Serug’s Mēmrā 122 on Jonah.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 11:1 (2008): 29–62. Robert A. Kitchen, Jonah’s Oar: Christian Typology in Jacob of Serug’s Mēmrā 122 on Jonah,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 11:1 (2008): 29–62.IV-VII CEJacob of SarugJacobitesJonahOld TestamentVI CEexegesishymnographypoetryrepentancetypology