Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Jephthah's daughter
By: translated with introduction by Susan Harvey, Ophir Münz-Manor.
Contributors: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook.; Münz-Manor, Ophir.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Texts from Christian late antiquity -- 22; Metrical homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug -- fasc. 16
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Jephthah's daughter -- (Biblical figure) -- Sermons; Jacob, -- of Serug, -- 451-521
Genres: Sermons
Work titles: Homily on Jephthah's daughter.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

English and Syriac.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Outline; title: Jacob's exegesis of judges; title: Text and translation; title: Opening invocation; title: The history of sacrifice; title: Jephthah and the war with the ammonites; title: Jephthah's vow; title: The battle; title: Jephthah's victory; title: The bride of blood; title: Jephthah's realization; title: Justice speaks; title: Jephthah's inner battle; title: Jephthah's inner victory; title: The daughter responds; title: The daughter's offering; title: Death trembles at her courage; title: Jephthah's test renewed; title: The daughter's lamentation; title: The lamentation completed; title: The poet's task; title: Jephthah's sacrifice.