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37: 734: 632:, where Ephrem took over the directorship of its school. Then, its importance grew still further. There were innumerable monasteries at Edessa housing many monks. Ephrem occupied a cell there, practicing the ascetic life, interpreting Holy Scripture, composing poetry and hymns and teaching in the school, as well as instructing young girls in church music. 833: 939: 191: 754: 579: 181: 535: 36: 572: 969: 959: 914:"Nestorius of Constantinople: Condemnation, Suppression, Veneration: With special reference to the role of his name in East-Syriac Christianity" 964: 224: 565: 647:. With that seminal decision, Qiiore embarked upon a course of study that was to mix the deductive principles of Aristotle with Theodore's 201: 834:"Christianity in Edessa and the Syriac-Speaking World: Mani, Bar Daysan, and Ephraem, the Struggle for Allegiance on the Aramean Frontier" 758: 69: 73: 89: 853: 522: 412: 148: 979: 527: 186: 20: 251: 944: 467: 196: 165: 160: 155: 106: 974: 110: 362: 232: 96: 77: 901:"Edessa Grew Dim and Nisibis Shone Forth: The School of Nisibis at the Transition of the Sixth-Seventh Century" 307: 170: 206: 694: 644: 135: 85: 61: 949: 432: 682: 540: 387: 28: 739: 688: 553: 507: 447: 81: 849: 829: 800: 667: 663: 635:
The first recorded director of the School of Edessa was Qiiore, in the early 5th century. He had
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and scholarly qualifications and an administrative ability. Occupying the Chair of Exegesis (
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Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-modern Europe and the Near East
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Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East
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Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond
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Imperial unity and Christian divisions: The Church 450–680 A.D.
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The following people are associated with the School of Edessa:
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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia
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Eastern Rite Community in Germany and the Czech Republic
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Educational institutions established in the 4th century
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P'ent'ay - Ethiopian and Eritrean Evangelical Churches
670:. Its scholars moved back to the School of Nisibis. 624:, accompanied by a number of teachers, to leave the 838:Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 643:), he replaced the texts of Ephraim with those of 182:Evangelical Church of Egypt (Synod of the Nile) 894:Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. 573: 8: 809:Christianity: A History in the Middle East 783: 580: 566: 15: 746: 27: 225:St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India 178:Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia 7: 918:Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 601: 220:Society for Eastern Rite Anglicanism 202:Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church 880:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 225–239. 620:fell to the Persians, causing St. 608:school of great importance to the 14: 861:Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 685:, historian of the school (c.600) 662:, acting on the advice of Bishop 171:Believers Eastern Church of India 907:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 77–89. 824:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 49–59. 816:Drijvers, Hendrik J. W. 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(1995). 197:Evangelical Orthodox Church 166:Assyrian Pentecostal Church 161:Assyrian Evangelical Church 156:Armenian Evangelical Church 1001: 709:, head (early 5th century) 229:St. Valentine's Fellowship 216:Russian Evangelical Church 536:Index of related articles 523:Eastern Christian history 233:Ukrainian Lutheran Church 658:, the Byzantine emperor 308:Eastern Catholic liturgy 245:Eastern liturgical rites 207:Mar Thoma Syrian Church 645:Theodore of Mopsuestia 125:Independent communions 980:Christian terminology 606:Christian theological 413:Eastern Protestantism 149:Eastern Protestantism 46:Mainstream communions 772:The School of Edessa 683:Barhadbshabba Arbaya 541:Western Christianity 29:Eastern Christianity 850:Griffith, Sidney H. 830:Griffith, Sidney H. 801:Brock, Sebastian P. 740:Christianity portal 695:Elishaʿ bar Quzbaye 689:Barsauma of Nisibis 554:Christianity portal 508:Christian mysticism 321:Major controversies 97:Eastern Catholicism 945:Church of the East 786:, p. 99, 194. 668:Nestorian doctrine 664:Cyrus II of Edessa 654:In 489, after the 102:Church of the East 57:Oriental Orthodoxy 975:Christian schools 701:Ephrem the Syrian 626:School of Nisibis 622:Ephrem the Syrian 590: 589: 136:Spiritual Russian 93: 66:Orthodox Tewahedo 52:Eastern Orthodoxy 992: 925: 908: 895: 886:Meyendorff, John 881: 868: 858: 845: 825: 812: 787: 781: 775: 774:, Nestorian.org. 769: 763: 762: 757:. 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