TY - BOOK AU - Bcheiry,Iskandar AU - Bcheiry,Iskandar TI - Repentance and Fasting from an Ascetical Perspective: A Comparative Reading of Jacob of Serugh and an Unpublished Shortened Version of a Collection of Homilies by Severus of Antioch T2 - Analecta Gorgiana SN - 9781463200916 U1 - 230 PY - 2011///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - RELIGION / Monasticism KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Repentance and Fasting From an Ascetical Perspective: A Comparative Reading of Jacob of Serugh and an Unpublished Shortened Version of a Collection of Homilies by Severus of Antioch; restricted access N2 - Saints Jacob of Serugh and Severus of Antioch provided monastic interpretations for Syriac Orthodoxy. Bcheiry highlights St. Jacob’s exegesis of Jonah as a spiritual struggle with ascetic appearances. St. Severus address the movement from self-deial to purity in his Lenten homilies UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234287 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463234287 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463234287/original ER -