The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scho…
Athanasius of Balad (d. 18 Rabīʿ II 67/11 November 686) was a West-Syrian (Jacobite) scholar, translator, and, eventually, Patriarch of Antioch. Originally from Balad (Eski Mawṣil), Athanasius studied under Severus of Sēbhōkht (d. 46/666–7) at the Monastery of Qenneshrē on the E…