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Sources for the history of the School of Nisibis /

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1846311616

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9781846311611

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Sources for the history of the School of Nisibis /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

translated with an introduction and notes by Adam H. Becker.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Liverpool :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Liverpool University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 217 pages :

Other Physical Details

maps ;

Dimensions

21 cm.

Series Title

Translated texts for historians ;

Volume Designation

volume 50

Text of Note

Translated from the Syriac.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202) and indexes.

Text of Note

The Aramaic-speaking Christian community of late antique and early Islamic period Mesopotamia developed a school culture that persisted for several centuries. Not unlike the Rabbinic academies, the East-Syrian schools were innovative as centres of learning where study was formally institutionalized, in contrast to the informal study circles of the past. This school culture played an important role in the early translation of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic in the 'Abbasid period. The most influential and prominent of these schools was the School of Nisibis, and this volume provides an annotated translation of the major sources for the School. A polemical document composed by Simeon of Bet Arsham, a theological enemy of the School, describes the foundation of the School as a significant step in the supposed spread of 'Nestorianism' throughout the Sasanian Empire. The more extensive East-Syrian Cause of the Foundation of the Schools offers a history of learning from God's creation of the world to the time of the text's composition at the School of Nisibis in the late sixth century CE, recasting patriarchal, Israelite, 'pagan' and Christian history as a long series of schools. The last two chapters of the Ecclesiastical History describe the lives of the two most important head exegetes at the School. These sources have never been translated into English and this is the first time that any of them has received close historical, linguistic and thematic analysis.

Title

Sources for the history of the School of Nisibis.

Cover Title

Sources for the study of the School of Nisibis

Spine Title

Sources for the study of Nisibis

Barḥadbešabba,active 6th century.

Deutsch, ...

Church of the East-- History

Madrasat Naṣībīn-- History

Church of the East.

Madrasat Naṣībīn.

Learning and scholarship-- Turkey-- Nusaybin (Mardin İli)-- History, Sources.

Manuscripts, Syriac, Translations into English.

11.53 Eastern Churches.

Fornkyrkan.

Intellectual life.

Learning and scholarship.

Manuscripts, Syriac.

School of Nisibis.

Schule von Nisibis

Syrisch

Übersetzung

Nusaybin (Mardin İli, Turkey), Church history, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Nusaybin (Mardin İli, Turkey), Intellectual life.

Irak, kyrkohistoria, källor.

Iraq.

Mesopotamia.

Syria.

Turkey, Nusaybin (Mardin İli)

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Becker, Adam H.,1972-

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20200823061353.0

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