The School of Nisibis
School · not before 472 · Nisibis
The school that took in what Edessa expelled. Barhadbeshabba tells how Barsauma, bishop of Nisibis, met Narsai at Edessa as he was leaving it, and asked him to found here, near at hand, the community he had meant to found far away. It became, in Le Quien's phrase, the citadel of the Nestorians, and a century and a half later its rule was still being written.
The source gives only a limit — it says the house was already there by this year, not that it began in it.
Who
- Narsai Head · Barhadbeshabba's chapter XXXI is Narsai's own life — where he came from and how he taught. Barsauma of Nisibis asks him 'de profiter de leur rencontre pour fonder la communauté (l'école) de Mésopotamie', and Narsai turns 'les pieds vers la ville de Nisibe'. ⚠ Le Quien names Barsauma and Narsai together as the school's 'primi duces'; Barsauma is not in this dataset, so only Narsai takes a row.
Where
- Nisibis the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other school houses
- The School of the Persians no year is recorded · Edessa
After Ecclesiastical History (second part) · PO IX.5 ch. XXXI pp. 588–600.