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School of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (137 words) |
 | The main theological authority of the school was Theodore of Mopsuestia from Antioch. |
| In Edessa his work was translated into Syriac and became the foundation of the theology of the Assyrian Church of the East. |
| The school was closed in 489 for its Nestorian tendencies. |
| Edessa, Mesopotamia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1254 words) |
| Edessa was at first more or less under the protectorate of the Parthians, then of Tigranes of Armenia, then from the time of Pompey under the Romans. |
| Among the illustrious disciples of the School of Edessa special mention is due to Bardesanes (154 - 222), a schoolfellow of Abgar IX, the originator of Christian religious poetry, whose teaching was continued by his son Harmonius and his disciples. |
| Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syrian Monophysites known after him as Jacobites; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the sixth century; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer (d. |
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