Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis

Name: Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis
Brand: Liverpool University Press
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By Becker, Adam H, Becker, Adam H

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The School of Nisibis was the most influential and prominent of the Aramaic-speaking Christian schools of late antique and early Mesopotamia. This volume provides for the first time an annotated translation of the major sources for the School of Nisibis--offering a close historical, linguistic, and thematic analysis. Aside from a general introduction and commentary on each translation, "Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis" includes the "Cause for the Foundation of the Schools," which provides a history of learning from God's creation of the world to the time of the text's composition at the end of the sixth century; the last two chapters of an East-Syrian "Ecclesiastical History"; and, among other texts, a document composed by Simeon of Bet Arsham, a theological enemy of the School and its history.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 2008-12-15
Publication Date:: 2008-10-01
Publisher:: Liverpool University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1846311616
ISBN13:: 9781846311611
Weight:: 295 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 208 cm
Thickness:: 15 cm

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