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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Robert A.KitchenThe Pearl of Virginity: Death as the Reward of Asceticism in Mēmrā 191 of Jacob of Serughttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YC9PXGG5https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YC9PXGG5https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YC9PXGG5Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies7:22004147-156Jacob of Serug’s <i>memra</i>, “On the <i>bat qyama</i>, a pure virgin, who departs from this world,” appears to be a funeral oration written on the death of a consecrated “daughter of the Covenant.” Jacob counsels those mourning that death is not the end, but the entrance into the angelic realm, the reward for a life of asceticism, virginity, and devotion to Jesus, the <i>Ihidaya</i>, her betrothed. The metaphor of the pearl applied to her virginity illustrates how she has ascended out of the iniquity of the world/sea to the glory of heaven through the power of her virginity and asceticism.
Kitchen, Robert A. “The Pearl of Virginity: Death as the Reward of Asceticism in Mēmrā 191 of Jacob of Serug.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7:2 (2004): 147–56.
Robert A. Kitchen, The Pearl of Virginity: Death as the Reward of Asceticism in Mēmrā 191 of Jacob of Serug,Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7:2 (2004): 147–56.IV-VII CEJacob of SarugJacobitesVI CEasceticismbnai qyamadeathhymnographypoetryvirginitywomen