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	Nisibis
		In 297, by the treaty with Narses, the province of Nisibis was acquired by the Roman Empire; in 363 it was ceded to the Persians on the defeat of Julian the Apostate.
		The latter dictated the statutes of the new school.
		Unlike the Jacobite schools, devoted chiefly to profane studies, the school of Nisibis was above all a school of theology.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/nisibis.html (843 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Nisibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nisibis was the home of Ephrem the Syrian, who remained until its surrender to the Persians by Jovian in 363.
		In the 5th century the school became a center of Nestorian Christianity, and was closed down by Archbishop Cyrus in 489; the expelled masters and pupils withdrew once more to Nisibis, under the care of Barsumas, who had been trained at Edessa, under the patronage of Narses, who established the statutes of the new school.
		The disorders and dissensions, which arose in the sixth century in the school of Nisibis, favoured the development of its rivals, especially that of Seleucia; however, it did not really begin to decline until after the foundation of the School of Baghdad (832).
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Nisibis (783 words)

	The School of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This controversy and capitulation by Bishop Rabbula prefigured the dissolution of the School of Edessa.
		Later, this influence upon the School of Nisibis is patently revealed in the Latin text below, which is a translation, from the Greek, of Paul's sixth century manual of scriptural and theological exegesis -- a manuscript that is Aristotelian in structure and Mopsuestian in content.
		The importance and intellectual centrality of the School of Edessa is proved by the documentation preserved by its successor, the School of Nisibis.
	www.nestorian.org /the_school_of_edessa.html (1270 words)

	Nisibis - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nisibis (Nisibia, Nisibin, modern Nusaybin, Mardin Province, south-eastern Turkey 37°4′N 41°13′E) is the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexander's successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia (Greek: Αντιόχεια της Μυγδονίας) and is mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus I against the Molon (Polybius, V, 51).
		Later, the bishop of Nisibis was the ecclesiastic metropolitan of the Province of Beit-Arbaye.
		Nisibis remains the site of two titular sees in the Roman Catholic Church, Nisibenus Chaldaeorum, and Nisibenus; the first seat is held by Jacques Ishaq, titular Archbishop, the second has been vacant since 1968.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Nisibis (728 words)

	Nestorianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But Barsauma, having become Bishop of Nisibis, the nearest important city to Edessa, broke with the weak Catholicos, whom he had deposed at a synod in April, 484.
		The Bishop of Nisibis was at all events in high favor with King Peroz, whom Barsauma persuaded that it would be a good thing for the Persian kingdom if the Christians in it were all of a different belief from those of the Empire.
		Peroz died soon after having murdered Babowai, and the energetic Bishop of Nisibis had evidently less to hope from his successor, Balash.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/n/ne/nestorianism.html (627 words)

	History of the Christian Syriac Schools of Theology
		The schools of Edessa and Nisibis were natural outgrowths of this Christian dependence upon Greek educational standards.
		With respect to the subject of biblical exposition, the conflict between the school of Alexandria and the school of Antioch was clearly drawn.
		As the School of Edessa served as the model for the School of Nisibis, so too were the Antiochene traditions of biblical exegesis, based on the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia, handed down by Narsai to his beloved students.
	phoenicia.org /syriactheoschools.html (4863 words)

	The School of Nisibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Administratively, the School of Nisibis replicated the School of Edessa.
		Chosen by the teachers of Nisibis, the rabban primarily supervised the faculty and course of study.
		We have already demonstrated that the philosophy of Aristotle was ensconced in the school of Antioch and later transferred to the School of Edessa as a propaedeutic to the study of theology.
	www.nestorian.org /the_school_of_nisibis.html (1461 words)

	Assyrian Church of the East - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They allowed the transfer of the school of Edessa to the Persian city Nisibis when the Byzantine emperor closed it for its Nestorian tendencies (489).
		But Bar Sauma, having become Bishop of Nisibis, the nearest important city to Edessa, broke with the weak Catholicos, whom he had deposed at a the Synod of Beth Lapat in April, 484.
		Babai the Great and his co-religionists worked hard to defend the legacy of Theodore: rival schools were set up in Nisibis and Balad, and the monastery of Mar Abraham, headed by Babai, took in a number of students from the school of Nisibis.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East (1532 words)

	St. Ephrem Pillar of the Church, Harp of the Holy Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ephrem was born in Nisibis at the beginning of the fourth century.
		As a disciple of Bishop James of Nisibis, he was ordained to the diaconate and was a lecturer in the newly-established school at Nisibis.
		After the fall of Nisibis, Ephrem departed from the city and began to teach in Edessa, where he lived as a "solitary" in a cell on a rock hill.
	www.opuslibani.org.lb /egliseeng/002/ephrem.htm (157 words)

	January 28- Saint Ephrem, a Doctor in the Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Then the bishop assigned him the chair of Sacred Theology in the famous school of Nisibis, where he showed great zeal, knowledge and virtue in teaching the Christian faith and tradition, writing down some excellent theological, apologetic, and liturgical essays and poems.
		Thus, thanks in large part to Saint Ephrem the Nisibis School became one among the best in the Church at that time, graduating some great theologians and saints in the Syrian Tradition.
		And when the clergy and people of Edessa wanted him to become their bishop, the news terrified Ephrem who considered himself unworthy of such a great responsibility, and pretended to be foolish and insane until he was left in alone.
	www.maronite-heritage.com /html/january_28.html (483 words)

	History of Syriac texts and Syrian Christianity - Table 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of Adiabene) a theologian and the director of the East Syrian School of Nisibis.
		Died east Syrian catholicos Sabhr-isho` in Nisibis, whilst the Persian king Khusraw II Parwez was besieging Dara.
		Sahdona studied at Nisibis and became a monk under Mar Y`aqob, (or Rabban Jacob) the founder of the convent of Beth `Abhe.
	www.srr.axbridge.org.uk /chron_tab6.html (6726 words)

	Nisbis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		School of Nisibis Nisibis (Nusaybin, eastern Turkey), was a persian city where a school of Christian learning and Biblical exigesis was founded at an early date (c.a.
		The school emphasized and relied heavily on the teachings of the Antiochene scholar and father Theodore of Mopsuestia.
		For this reason it is sometimes called the Nestorian School of Nisibis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nisbis (146 words)

	Labyrinth Books
		by Becker, Adam H. The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity.
		Furthermore, he argues that the East-Syrian ("Nestorian") school movement is better understood as an integral and at times contested part of the broader spectrum of East-Syrian monasticism.
		The East-Syrian schools are the most significant contemporary intellectual institutions immediately comparable to the Rabbinic academies, even as they served as the conduit for the transmission of Greek philosophical texts and ideas to Muslims in the early 'Abbasid period.
	www.labyrinthbooks.com /all_detail.aspx?isbn=0812239342 (252 words)

	AYDIN: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the IVth Syriac Symposium at Princeton, July 9-13, 2003
		[5] The School of Nisibis was the major intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries as well as an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity.
		Instead of seeing monasteries and schools as wholly different and distinct institutions, I will argue that the difference between the School of Nisibis and East-Syrian “reform” monasteries was their notions of epistemology, the accessibility of the divine, and the importance of the social interaction.
		I would like to reassess our understanding of the Daughters of the Covenant, with particular attention to the question of women's liturgical participation. Liturgical chanting was one of the canonically prescribed activities of the Daughters of the Covenant (e.g, Rabbula Canons, 20).
	syrcom.cua.edu /hugoye/Vol7No1/HV7N1IVSyriacSymAbstracts.html (7514 words)

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		Thus it is likely that, long before the closing of the Persian School in Edessa in 489, and the emergence of its successor in Nisibis, the influence of Theodore of Mopsuestia had long been felt beyond the eastern bounds of the Roman Empire.
		Our main witness for the theological teaching both at Edessa and at Nisibis in the fifth century is the poet Narsai, who both studied and taught at Edessa, and then (perhaps in 471) moved to Nisibis where he was still teaching in 496, the year when the School of Nisibis’ revised statutes were issued.
		The Antiochene partisans at Nisibis vigorously promoted their Christological position, using the terminology familiar to them, that is, with the very terminology anathematized by the Ephesene synod and by the partisans of Cyril.
	www.metroplit-bishoy.org /files/Dialogues/Assyrians/siteassyr.doc (8729 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Jacob of Nisibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		First bishop of Nisibis, Mesopotamia from 309 until his death.
		Known for his learning, his piety, his construction of a basilica and theological school at Nisibis.
		Launched the first known search by Christians for the mountain of Noah's Ark. Many writings have been attributed to him; scholars have recently determined they were authored by another Jacob.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintj0h.htm (86 words)

	How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs
		In brief, through the many schools the "Nestorians" (Assyrian Church of the East) founded, including the Schools at Edessa, Nisibis, and Jundi-Shapur, the Greek works were translated into Syriac for use in the curriculums.
		His strongly pro-Greek attitude seems to have been derived from Marw, where his family had settled after removing from Balkh, and in his efforts he was ably assisted by Jibra'il of the Bukhtyishu' family [a famous Assyrian family which produced nine generations of physicians] and his successors from Jundi-Shapur.
		Most of the translators of the next generation received their training from Hunayn or his pupils, so that he stands out as the leading translator of the better type, though some of his versions were afterwards revised by later writers.
	www.aina.org /aol/peter/greek.htm (1571 words)

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		It is imperative, then, to first investigate the formulators of the doctrinal movements and the "schools" that antedated Edessa and Nisibis, as the composition of these Syrian theological institutions was a synthesis of the philosophies, creeds, and exegetical principles that emerged in such loci as Antioch, Alexandria, and Mopsuestia.
		The subject of Christology, however, elicited emotional and religious responses and distinctions that were to transcend these academic environs and affect the political and religious life and practice of Christianity in the Syrian Orient for centuries to come.
		Although much of Nestorius's sermons and teachings were ordered to be burned, the doctrine of Nestorianism survived and served as the basis for Dyophysite teachings in the fifth and sixth centuries, particularly at Nisibis, which had inherited the mantle of Syrian scholarship from Edessa.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/junillus.intro.html (4499 words)

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		In the field of medicine, the Bakhteesho Assyrian family produced nine generations of physicians, and founded the great medical school at Gundeshapur (Iran).
		One of the greatest Assyrian achievements of the fourth century was the founding of the first university in the world, the School of Nisibis, which had three departments, theology, philosophy and medicine, and which became a magnet and center of intellectual development in the Middle East.
		The statutes of the School of Nisibis, which have been preserved, later became the model upon which the first Italian university was based (see The Statutes of the School of Nisibis, by Arthur Voobus).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/2507/dialogWhatArabC.htm (1398 words)

	History of Syriac texts and Syrian Christianity - Table 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abraham was the second director of the School of Nisibis and seems to have been responsible for it's great enlargement in the first half of the 6
		According to the same ancient source, Narsai was succeeded as director of the School of Nisibis by Elisha who held this office for 7 years.
		There was a dispute about the succession between Mar Narsa a scholar from the School of Nisibis, (not the same name as Narsai the famous scholar who lived earlier) and Mar Elisha a physician who were both elected catholicoi of the east in mutual opposition.
	www.srr.axbridge.org.uk /chron_tab5.html (5519 words)

	Chart of the Syro-Phoenician Church from 525 A.D. till 1724
		During Hazqiel's episcopate, rabban Henana of Hedhaiyabh flourished in the School of Nisibis.
		Died east Syriac catholicos Sabhr-isho` in Nisibis, whilst the Persian king Khusraw II Parwez was besieging Dara.
		Sahdonna studied at Nisibis and became a monk under Mar Y`aqob, (or Rabban Jacob) the founder of the convent of Beth `Abhe.
	phoenicia.org /historychartchristian.html (8796 words)

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		The School of Nisibis had three departments: theology, philosophy and medicine, and became a magnet and center of intellectual development in the Middle East.
		The statutes of the School of Nisibis, which have been preserved, later became the model upon which the first Italian university was based.
		When Arabs and Islam swept through the Middle East in 630 A.D., they encountered 600 years of Assyrian Christian civilization, with a rich heritage, a highly developed culture, and advanced learning institutions.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/single.php?post=652133 (324 words)

	St. Ephrem
		His parents were most likely pagan, but he was baptized at 18, and entered the service of the church.
		He was probably head of the famous Christian school at Nisibis, and there began to write the hymns for which he became famous.
		When the Christians were ousted from Nisibis, he went with them to Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey).
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id268.htm (672 words)

	Amazon.fr : Fear of God And the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis And the Development of Scholastic Culture ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.fr : Fear of God And the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis And the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Livres en anglais: Adam H. Becker
		The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity.
		Adam H. Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of the school movement and reassesses the evidence for the supposed predecessor of the School of Nisibis, the famed School of the Persians of Edessa.
	www.amazon.fr /Fear-God-Beginning-Wisdom-Mesopotamia/dp/0812239342 (476 words)

	NYU > Classics > Faculty > Adam Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		My forthcoming book, The Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), is a history of the East-Syrian (i.e.
		Syriac "Nestorian" Christian) school movement and includes material on the reception of the Neoplatonic version of Aristotelian logic in Mesopotamia in the sixth century CE.
		I am also interested in the later Neoplatonic philosophers of the fifth and sixth centuries, "magic" in antiquity, the history of Syriac Christianity in the modern Middle East, and the theoretical problems of studying religion in antiquity as well as critical theories of religion in general.
	www.nyu.edu /fas/dept/classics/faculty/ABecker.html (245 words)

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		Perceiving that the schools were swarming with students because of a great longing for secular letters (a great part of mankind believed that through these schools it attained worldly wisdom), I was, I confess, extremely sorry that the Divine Scrip-tures had no public teachers, since worldly authors were rich in instruction beyond doubt most distinguished.
		2 The (Jewish) school at Nisibis is also mentioned by Junilius, bishop of Africa, in the letter prefixed to his work De partibus divinae legis ad Primasium episcopum (Migne, Pat.
		In them I commit to you, not my own learning, but the words of men of former times, which it is right to praise and glorious to proclaim for future generations, for whatever is said about men of former times by way of praise of the Lord is not considered hateful display.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/sterk/Documents/cassiodorus.htm (1369 words)

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