school
School of Nisibis
489–650
attested. Attested by its surviving statutes and chronicles. The founding date (c. 471 or 489) varies in the sources.
Refounded in Persian territory by Narsai and Bishop Barsauma after Edessa's closure, the school became the main academy of the Church of the East, with written statutes, hundreds of students and a curriculum based on Theodore of Mopsuestia.
Place: Nisibis · On the map
People
- Narsai (founding head)
- Barsauma of Nisibis (bishop, patron)
- Henana of Adiabene (6th-c. head)
- Abraham of Beth Rabban
Manuscripts made here
Statutes of the School (496 and 590)
Kept now: Syriac manuscripts
Narsai's verse homilies (memre)
Kept now: later East Syriac manuscripts
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