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Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Author: Adam H. Becker
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 scholastic culture of the Church of the East more generally in th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812239348
ISBN-10: 0812239342
Publication Date: 5/31/2006
Pages: 312
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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