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DeChurched Atlas

Person

Ephrem the Syrian

c. 306-373

deacon, poet-theologian

Attested. Attested; many works ascribed to him are later.

Ephrem the Syrian
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Ephrem wrote Syriac hymns and verse homilies in Nisibis and, after 363, in Edessa. He is the greatest early poet of Syriac Christianity. Later Greek lives add legendary journeys. His own madrashe are the evidence.

The greatest Syriac poet. He taught at Nisibis until the city was handed to Persia in 363, then moved to Edessa, where he is said to have founded the school.

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  • nisibis · teacher and deacon · to 363 · attested
  • edessa · refuge after Nisibis ceded to Persia; died · 363-373 · attested

Library: School of Edessa (School of the Persians)

Bridge: School of the Persians at Edessa

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