Theodore of Mopsuestia, 'the Interpreter'
c. c. 350 – 428
Place: mopsuestia
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Life and works attested. Condemned at Constantinople II (553). No specific Qur'anic dependence is claimed here; it is context only.
Theodore was a biblical scholar of Antioch who stressed Christ's full humanity alongside his divinity. Translated into Syriac at Edessa, he became the authority of the Church of the East, while the imperial church condemned him in 553. The Qur'an's insistence on Jesus as a human 'servant' of God has been compared with this Antiochene emphasis.
People named here
- Theodore of Mopsuestia
- Diodore of Tarsus
- Nestorius
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School of the Persians at Edessa
Theodore's works were translated into Syriac at Edessa.
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Theodore became the Church of the East's standard exegete.
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Nestorius, deposed patriarch of Constantinople
Nestorius came from the Antiochene school associated with Theodore.
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Theodore of Mopsuestia
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Adam H. Becker, Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and Christian Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia (2006)
University of Pennsylvania Press. Accessed 2026-11-11.