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Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis
Adam H. Becker
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Paperback. The East-Syrian schools were innovative as centres of learning where study was formally institutionalized, in contrast to the informal study circles of the past. This school culture played an important role in the early translation of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic in the 'Abbasid period. This book describes the foundation of the School. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 213 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
The Aramaic-speaking Christian community of late antique and early Islamic period Mesopotamia developed a school culture that persisted for several centuries. Not unlike the Rabbinic academies, the East-Syrian schools were innovative as centres of learning where study was formally institutionalized, in contrast to the informal study circles of the past. This school culture played an important role in the early translation of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic in the ‘Abbasid period. The most influential and prominent of these schools was the School of Nisibis, and this volume provides an annotated translation of the major sources for the School. A polemical ... Read more
The Aramaic-speaking Christian community of late antique and early Islamic period Mesopotamia developed a school culture that persisted for several centuries. Not unlike the Rabbinic academies, the East-Syrian schools were innovative as centres of learning where study was formally institutionalized, in contrast to the informal study circles of the past. This school culture played an important role in the early translation of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic in the ‘Abbasid period. The most influential and prominent of these schools was the School of Nisibis, and this volume provides an annotated translation of the major sources for the School. A polemical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311611
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V9781846311611
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About Adam H. Becker
Adam H. Becker is Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at New York University and the author of Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
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