death_date religion birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name
521 11 29 syriac orthodox kurtam c. 451 contribution to syriac literature and hymnody jacob of serugh
 jacob of serugh
jacob of serugh

jacob of serugh -lrb- , ' ; his toponym is also spelled `` serug '' or `` sarug '' ; c. 451 -- 29 november 521 -rrb- , also called mar jacob , was one of the foremost syriac poet-theologians among the syriac , perhaps only second in stature to ephrem the syrian and equal to narsai .
where his predecessor ephrem is known as the ` harp of the spirit ' , jacob is the ` flute of the spirit ' .
he is best known for his prodigious corpus of more than seven-hundred verse homilies , or `` mêmrê '' -lrb- -rrb- , of which only 225 have thus far been edited and published .
