Abdisho bar Berika or Ebedjesu () (died 1318), also known as Mar Odisho or St. Odisho in English, was a Syriac writer. He was born in

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. Abdisho was first bishop of Shiggar (

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) and the province of Bet 'Arbaye (Arbayestan) around 1285 and from before 1291 he was the metropolitan of

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and Armenia. He was the author of the Marganitha (''The Book of the Jewel''), one of the most important ecclesiastical texts of the

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, a kind of theological encyclopaedia. He wrote biblical commentaries in Syriac, as well as polemical treatises against

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and dogmatic and legal writings. He also wrote texts in metrical form including an author catalogue, which played an important role in Syrian literary history.

Works

The "book of the jewel"
or Marganitha (1298)
Catalogue of biblical and ecclesiastical books
* Paradise of Eden.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berika, Abdisho Bar People from Sinjar Year of birth unknown 1318 deaths 13th-century bishops of the Church of the East Church of the East canonists Syriac writers Church of the East writers