Rabbulas

Rabbulas (or Rabbula) was bishop of Edessa (411 - 435). He was opposed to the views of Theodore of Mopsuestia, as well as those of Nestorius. However, his successor Ibas, who was in charge of the school of Edessa, reversed the official stance of that bishopric.

FC Burkitt proposed the theory that Rabbulas was responsible for the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Bible, based on a life of the bishop written around AD 450. This theory was at one point widely accepted. However, since then Arthur Vöörbus (Investigations into the Text of the New Testament used by Rabbula of Edessa [Pinneburg, 1947]) has furnished evidence that the Peshitta was older than Rabbulas' time.

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