ABSTRACT
Ephrem the Syrian, the foremost writer in the Syriac tradition of Christianity, wasborn in Nisibis c. 306 ce. He came from a Christian family, as he himself affirms in a famous passage in his Hymns against Heresies 26.10:
In the way of truth was I born even though I as a child did not yet perceive it. Examining, I acquired it for myself, as I perceived it. My faith despised the confusing paths that came toward me.
