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The School of Nisibis (Syriac: ܐܣܟܘܠܐ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ, for a time absorbed into the School of Edessa) was an educational establishment in Nisibis (now Nusaybin, Turkey). It was an important spiritual centre of the early Church of the East, and like the Academy of Gondishapur, it is sometimes referred to as the world's first university.[1][2][3] The school had three primary departments teaching: theology, philosophy and medicine. Its most famous teacher was Narsai, formerly head of the School of Edessa.[citation needed]
The school was founded in 350 in Nisibis. In 363, when Nisibis fell to the Persians, St. Ephrem the Syrian, accompanied by a number of teachers, left the school. They went to the School of Edessa, where Ephrem took over the directorship of the school there. It had been founded as long ago as the 2nd century by the kings of the Abgar dynasty. When Ephrem took over the school, its importance grew still further.[4] After the Nestorian Schism, when the Byzantine emperor Zeno ordered the school closed for its teachings of Nestorian doctrine, deemed heretical by Chalcedonian Christianity, the School moved back to Nisibis.[5]
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Narsai, formerly head of the Schoolof Edessa.[citation needed] The school was founded in 350 in Nisibis. In 363, when Nisibis fell to the Persians, St...
Eutropius, the cession ofNisibis was supposed to last 120 years. Nisibis remained a major entrepôt; one of only three such cities of commercial exchange...
of the Abgar dynasty. In 363, Nisibis fell to the Persians, causing St. Ephrem the Syrian, accompanied by a number of teachers, to leave the School of...
Bar Sawma, "son of Lent" in Syriac, was Metropolitan ofNisibis in the 5th century, and a major figure in the history of the Church of the East. Under...
known as Saint Jacob of Mygdonia, Saint Jacob the Great, and Saint James ofNisibis, was a hermit, a grazer and the Bishop ofNisibis until his death. He...
Gundeshapur would have resembled the SchoolofNisibis. What is more likely is there existed a seminary, like the one in Nisibis, where medical texts were read...
Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem ofNisibis, was a prominent Christian theologian and writer who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern...
Henana of Adiabene (died 610) was a Christian theologian, and headmaster of the SchoolofNisibis, the main theological center of the Church of the East...
of the Schoolof Edessa to the (then) Persian city ofNisibis (modern-day Nusaybin in Turkey) in 489, where it became known as the SchoolofNisibis.[citation...
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The SchoolofNisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. University of Pennsylvania...
accusations of foreign allegiance. The Schoolof Edessa relocated to the Mesopotamian city ofNisibis. The SchoolofNisibis thereafter became a centre of Nestorianism...
of learning and transmission of classical wisdom were Christian colleges such as the SchoolofNisibis and the Schoolof Edessa, the pagan center of learning...
period. Centers of learning and of transmission of classical wisdom included colleges such as the SchoolofNisibis, and later the Schoolof Edessa, and the...
Byzantine emperor Zeno, and was transferred and absorbed into the SchoolofNisibis in Asia Minor, also known as Nisibīn, then under Persian rule. Here...
(Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܘܣ ܣܝܒܘܟܬ), also Seboukt ofNisibis, was a Syriac scholar and bishop who was born in Nisibis, Syria in 575 and died in 667. Although little...
period. Centers of learning and of transmission of classical wisdom included colleges such as the SchoolofNisibis and later the Schoolof Edessa, and the...
commentator of the Church of the East. A native of Beth ʿArbaye, Barḥadbshabba was the chief instructor (bādūqā) at the SchoolofNisibis during the directorship...
Theodoret of Cyrus. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781134391769. Reinink, Gerrit J. (1995). "Edessa Grew Dim and Nisibis Shone Forth: The Schoolof Nisibis...
Nestorian teachings, the school relocated to its original home ofNisibis, becoming again the SchoolofNisibis, leading to a wave of Nestorian immigration...
Christianity. A Nestorian school was founded in Erbil by the SchoolofNisibis in c. 521. During this period, Erbil was also the site of a Zoroastrian fire temple...
of pre-Islamic era universities such as the SchoolofNisibis, Sarouyeh, Reishahr, and The Academy of Gundishapur provide examples of precedence of academic...
Gregory of Kashkar (died c. 611) was the bishop of Kashkar and then from about 596 the metropolitan ofNisibis in the Church of the East. His hagiography...
bank of the Tigris, near Nisibis. He was born to a family of humble means, and studied at the Christian SchoolofNisibis under the directorship of Abraham...
Hnanisho I (686–698). The famous SchoolofNisibis was an important seminary and theological academy of the Church of the East during the late Sassanian...
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