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Moses Bar-Kepha

For ten years he was the patriarchal Periodeutes, or visitor, of the Diocese of Tagrit where he acquired a great fame and reputation.


Jacob Bar-Salibi

Of his writings probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he skillfully interwove and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, Chrysostom, Cyril, Moses Bar-Kepha and John of Dar, whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on St Matthew.


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