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Bardaisan (11 July 154 – 222 AD; Syriac: ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, Bar Dayṣān; also Bardaiṣan), known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān (Arabic: ابن ديصان)[1] and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Assyrian[2] Christian writer and teacher with a gnostic background,[3] and founder of the Bardaisanites.
A scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher, hymnwriter,[4] and poet, Bardaisan was also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.[5] According to the early Christian historian Eusebius, Bardaisan was at one time a follower of the gnostic Valentinus, but later opposed Valentinian gnosticism and also wrote against Marcionism.[6]
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- ^ Prods Oktor Skjaervo. Bardesanes. Encyclopædia Iranica. Volume III. Fasc. 7-8. ISBN 0-7100-9121-4.
- ^ After Bardaisan Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Professor Han. J.W. Drijvers (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), archived from the original on 8 March 2012, retrieved 2 September 2018
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- ^ Edessa – Parthian Period, University of Evansville, archived from the original on 20 February 2007
- ^ Historia Ecclesiastica, 4.30.