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BL
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856941
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Sources for the history of the School of Nisibis /\ translated with an introduction and notes by Adam H. Becker.
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| Publication Statement
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Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Translated texts for historians ;; volume 50
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viii, 217 pages :: maps ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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1846311616
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: 9781846311611
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| Notes
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Translated from the Syriac.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202) and indexes.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Barḥadbešabba,active 6th century.
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Deutsch, ...
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Church of the East-- History
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Madrasat Naṣībīn-- History
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Church of the East.
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Madrasat Naṣībīn.
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Learning and scholarship-- Turkey-- Nusaybin (Mardin İli)-- History, Sources.
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Manuscripts, Syriac, Translations into English.
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11.53 Eastern Churches.
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Fornkyrkan.
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Intellectual life.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Manuscripts, Syriac.
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Schule von Nisibis
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Syrisch
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Übersetzung
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School of Nisibis.
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Nusaybin (Mardin İli, Turkey), Church history, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Nusaybin (Mardin İli, Turkey), Intellectual life.
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Irak, kyrkohistoria, källor.
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Iraq.
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Mesopotamia.
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Syria.
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Turkey, Nusaybin (Mardin İli)
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| Dewey Classification
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281.8
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| LC Classification
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BR1085.N87S68 2008
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11.53bcl
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BO 2010rvk
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BO 2430rvk
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| Added Entry
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Becker, Adam H.,1972-
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| Cover Title
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Sources for the study of the School of Nisibis
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| Spine Title
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Sources for the study of Nisibis
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