Who
Syriac poet-theologian called the "flute of the Holy Spirit", a chorepiscopus for most of his life and bishop of Batnan in Serug from 519. Several hundred metrical homilies (memre) survive, among them homilies on the Mother of God, on her virginity and on her burial, which are among the earliest full witnesses to the Dormition tradition. His Christology leaned toward the miaphysite side, but his homilies were read across the Syriac churches.
In Jewish Roots of Mary
Who
Syriac bishop and poet, 'the flute of the Holy Spirit,' whose homilies on Mary supply the book's epigraph and an early witness to Mary as the Ark.
Quoted works
- Homily 1 on the Blessed Virgin — 'It is easier to depict the sun with its light and its heat, than to tell the story of Mary in its splendor… Love moves me to speak of her' — the epigraph (p 7)
- Homily III on the Mother of God 671 — 'that maiden was the Ark of the Godhead'; as David danced before the Ark, John leaped in the womb before Mary (pp 61–62)