Name Abdisho Berika Died 1318 | Role Writer | |
Books The Nomocanon of Abdisho of Nisibis: A Facsimile Edition of Ms 64 from the Collection of the Church of the East in Trissur | ||
Abdisho bar Berika or Ebedjesu (Syriac: ܥܒܕܝܝܫܘܥ ܕܨܘܒܐ) (d.1318), also known as "Mar Odisho" or "St. Odisho" in English, was an East Syrian writer.
Abdisho was first bishop of Shiggar (Sinjar) and the province of Bet 'Arbaye (Arbayestan) around 1285 and from before 1291 metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia. He was the author of the Marganitha, one of the most important ecclesiastical texts of the Assyrian Church of the East.
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