Bryn Mawr Classical Review reviews Adam H. Becker’s Fear of God And the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis And the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia.

Nisibis was home to many great lights of Syriac Christianity. The city’s theological school flourished until the province was handed over to the Persians in 363 A.D. St. Ephrem reestablished it on Roman soil at Edessa. (Hat tip on the book: Rogue Classicism.)