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    in common use until Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa (412–435), forbade its use. Among the illustrious disciples of the School of Edessa, Bardaisan (154–222)...
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  • opposed. He appears first as a presbyter of the church of Edessa during the episcopate of Rabbula, warmly espousing the theological views which his bishop...
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  • Below is a list of bishops of Edessa. The following list is based on the records of the Chronicle of Edessa (to c.540) and the Chronicle of Zuqnin. These...
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    Jerusalem attacked him around 435 in his Ecclesiastical History; Rabbula, bishop of Edessa, who at Ephesus had sided with John of Antioch, now publicly anathematized...
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  • Diatessaron, which was compiled about 172 and in common use until St. Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa (412–435), forbade its use. This arrangement of the four canonical...
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    biblical scholars agreed that this work was done by Bishop Rabbula of Edessa (d. 436). Rabbula's authorship is questionable, however, because the quotations...
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  • change in the theological focus of the early Church. The sixth-century Rabbula Gospels include some of the earliest images of the crucifixion and resurrection...
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     411 translation of Eusebius's Theophania and a c. 435 life of Rabbula, bishop of Edessa. It was pronounced as Baʿlabakk (Arabic: بَعْلَبَكّ) in Classical...
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