Cyrus of Edessa
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title:
Cyrus of Edessa
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Cyrus of Edessa was a Syriac writer and teacher in the Church of the East. He was probably a native of Edessa. He studied at the school of Nisibis under Aba, the future patriarch, and then taught at the school of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, eventually rising to become its headmaster. He founded a monastery at Ḥirta sometime after the death of Aba (552). Cyrus was one of the earliest Syriac authors to write liturgical commentary of the "cause" or explanation (ʿeltā) genre. He wrote six treatises explaini
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6th-century Syriac Christian writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_of_Edessa
date created:
2020-05-27T23:59:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T12:21:16Z
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