The Edessa School: Where Persia and Rome Met in Syriac

Before Nisibis became the intellectual jewel of the Church of the East, there was Edessa. This episode takes you to the School of Edessa, the fourth-century Syriac academy that trained the bishops, translators, and theologians who later shaped Christian thought from Persia to China. We explore its founding under Ephrem the Syrian, its role in transmitting Greek philosophy into Syriac and then into Arabic, the bitter Christological controversies that tore it apart, and the migration of its scholars to Nisibis after the school's closure in 489. Along the way, we meet figures like Ephrem, Ibas of Edessa, and Barsauma of Nisibis, and examine how a single institution became a conduit between the Roman and Sassanid worlds. The story of the School of Edessa is the story of how knowledge crossed empires, often at great personal cost. #SchoolOfEdessa #SyriacChristianity #EphremTheSyrian #Nisibis #IbasOfEdessa #Barsauma #ChurchOfTheEast #Nestorianism #Christology #CouncilOfEphesus #Sassanids #Byzantium #EarlyMiddleAges #HistoryOfEducation #TranslationMovement #SyriacLiterature #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo