Carmina Nisibena

work by Ephraem Syrus

Also known as: “Songs of Nisibis”

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In patristic literature: The schools of Edessa and Nisibis
His Carmina Nisibena (“Songs of Nisibis”) make a valuable sourcebook for historians, especially for information about the frontier wars.
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In Saint Ephraem Syrus
…of these events in verse, Carmina Nisibena (“Songs of Nisibis”), constitutes a valuable historical source. Declining any higher office in the church (he escaped being consecrated bishop by feigning madness) and tempering his natural irascibility by monastic asceticism, he produced a wealth of theological literature. The 5th-century Byzantine historian Sozomen…
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