Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non Chalcedonian Christians alike Jacob of Sarug d 521 produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English Of his reported 760 metrical homilies only about half survive Part of a series of fascicles containing the bilingual Syriac English editions of Saint Jacob of Sarug s homilies this volume contains two of his homilies on Jacob The Syriac text is fully vocalized and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug which when complete will contain all of Jacob s surviving sermons