Moses of Nisibis
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Moses of Nisibis
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Moses of Nisibis was a West Syriac monk and scribe. He was the abbot of Dayr al-Suryan, the Syrian monastery in the Wadi al-Natrun in Egypt, from 914 at the latest. He brought together and helped preserve one of the most important collections of ancient Syriac manuscripts, which is still of critical importance to scholars today. Moses is first attested as a scribe of Dayr al-Suryan in 903 or 904. He acquired for the monastery a 6th-century copy of the Peshitta, the Syriac Bible, from a family of
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