His companions in the killings included the priests Hashu and Isaac, the secretary Ephrem, the hypodeacon Papa, the laymen Daduk and Durdan, and Papa, a brother of Abda himself.

A new integrative approach to anger treatment has been formulated by Ephrem Fernandez ( 2010 ) Termed CBAT, for cognitive behavioral affective therapy, this treatment goes beyond conventional relaxation and reappraisal by adding cognitive and behavioral techniques and supplementing them with affective techniques to deal with the feeling of anger.

The church historian Sozomen credits Ephrem with having written over three million lines.

Ephrem used these to warn his flock of the heresies which threatened to divide the early church.

Later hagiographers often painted a picture of Ephrem as an extreme ascetic, but the internal evidence of his authentic writings show him to have had a very active role, both within his church community and through witness to those outside of it.

St. Ephrem occupied a cell there, practicing the ascetic life, interpreting Holy Scripture, composing poetry and hymns and teaching in the school, as well as instructing young girls in church music.

The two giants of this period are Aphrahat, writing homilies for the church in Persia, and Ephrem the Syrian, writing hymns, poetry and prose for the church just within the Roman Empire.

The story of how King Abgar and Jesus had corresponded was first recounted in the 4th century by the church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in his Ecclesiastical History ( i. 13 and iii. 1 ) and it was retold in elaborated form by Ephrem the Syrian.

It seems that Bardaisan and Mani composed madrāšê, and Ephrem felt that the medium was a suitable tool to use against their claims.

Ephrem is popularly believed to have taken legendary journeys.

Ephrem is also supposed to have visited Saint Pishoy in the monasteries of Scetes in Egypt.

In modern history the leaders of the Syriac Catholic Church have been among others: Patriarch Michael III Jarweh, Archbishop Clemens Daoud, Patriarch Ephrem Rahmani, Vicomte de Tarrazi, Monsignor Ishac Armaleh, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni, Chorbishop Gabriel Khoury-Sarkis, Ignatius Antony II Hayyek, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad and presently Ignatius Joseph III Yonan

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk ( George Hamartolus ).

Diatessaronic texts such as the Liege Dutch Harmony, the Pepysian Gospel Harmony, Codex Fuldensis, The Persian Harmony, The Arabic Diatessaron, and the Commentary on the Diatessaron by Ephrem the Syrian have provided recent insights into Aramaic origins.

" With regard to Boswell's central claim to have found evidence for the use of wedding crowns in the rite for making brothers, Ephrem notes that what the relevant text says, " somewhat literally translated ," is this: " It is inadmissible for a monk to receive is a standard Greek word for ' godparent ' children from holy baptism, or to hold marriage crowns or to make brother-makings.

The tradition continued in the 4th century by Ephrem the Syrian and later by Saint Augustine in his Felix culpa, i. e. the happy fall from grace of Adam and Eve.

Even during his lifetime they were translated into Syriac and gradually replaced the work of Ephrem.

To name some of his work, he is credited for the melody of the song " እስከመቼም አልረሳው ያንቺን ፍቅር እኔ " sang by vocalist Ephrem Tamiru.

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.

Jacob appointed Ephrem as a teacher ( Syriac, a title that still carries great respect for Syriac Christians ).

A number of 3rd-and 4th-century Roman writers also mention Thomas ' trip to India, including Ambrose of Milan, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, and Ephrem the Syrian, while Eusebius of Caesarea records that his teacher Pantaenus visited a Christian community in India in the 2nd century.

Jacob was the teacher and spiritual director of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, a great ascetic, teacher and hymn writer who combatted Arianism.

Jacob of Serugh (, ; his toponym is also spelled Serug or Sarug ; c. 451 – 29 November 521 ), also called Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theologians among the Syriac, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai.

Ephrem is popularly credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis, which in later centuries was the centre of learning of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

* Ephrem the Syrian, ( c. 306 – 373 ), Syriac speaking deacon, hymnographer, theologian, director of the School of Edessa

When Nisibis was ceded to the Persians in 363, Ephrem the Syrian left his native town for Edessa, where he founded the celebrated School of the Persians.

They went to the School of Edessa, where St. Ephrem took over the directorship of the school there.

In 363 Nisibis fell to the Persians, causing St. Ephrem, accompanied by a number of teachers, to leave the School of Nisibis.

Ephrem with the others went first to Amida ( Diyarbakır ), eventually settling in Edessa ( modern Şanlıurfa ) in 363.

Ephrem comments that orthodox Nicene Christians were simply called ' Palutians ' in Edessa, after a former bishop.

A later Syriac writer, Jacob of Serugh, wrote that Ephrem rehearsed all-female choirs to sing his hymns set to Syriac folk tunes in the forum of Edessa.

After a ten-year residency in Edessa, in his sixties, Ephrem succumbed to the plague as he ministered to its victims.

They went to Edessa, where St. Ephrem took over the directorship of its school.

Adolf Hilgenfeld in 1864 defended this view, based mainly on extracts from St. Ephrem, who devoted his life to combating Bardaisanism in Edessa.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

Examples of such people are Saint Hilarion and Saint Ephrem the Syrian in the East, and Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the West.

His success in dealing with a manuscript that, having been rewritten with other works of Ephrem the Syrian, had been mostly illegible to earlier collators, made him more well known, and gained support for more extended critical expeditions.

Ephrem the Syrian wrote a commentary on it, the Syriac original of which was rediscovered only in 1957, when a manuscript acquired by Sir Chester Beatty in 1957 ( now Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709, Dublin ) turned out to contain the text of Ephrem's commentary.

Ephrem did not comment on all passages in the Diatessaron, and nor does he always quote commentated passages in full ; but for those phrases that he does quote, the commentary provides for the first time a dependable witness to Tatian's original ; and also confirms its content and their sequence.

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Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as prose biblical exegesis.

Jacob, the second bishop of Nisibis, was appointed in 308, and Ephrem grew up under his leadership of the community.

Ephrem was baptized as a youth, and almost certainly became a son of the covenant, an unusual form of Syrian proto-monasticism.

Newly excavated Church of Jacob of Nisibis | Saint Jacob in Nisibis, where Ephrem taught and ministered.

During the first siege, Ephrem credits Bishop Jacob as defending the city with his prayers.

Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn which portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood.

In this confusion, Ephrem wrote a great number of hymns defending Nicene orthodoxy.

Over four hundred hymns composed by Ephrem still exist.

Ephrem combines in his writing a threefold heritage: he draws on the models and methods of early Rabbinic Judaism, he engages skillfully with Greek science and philosophy, and he delights in the Mesopotamian / Persian tradition of mystery symbolism.