Book Summary
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
Book Details
| Book Name | Sources For The History Of The School Of Nisibis |
| Author | Adam H. Becker |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (Jan 2009) |
| ISBN | 9781846311611 |
| Pages | 217 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1273 |
