EBEDIESU (‘ABDĪŠO’ BAB BĒRĪKĀ). – Nestorian Metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia (ca. 1290), died in November 1318. One of the last writers in Syriac.
His works: Paradise of Eden (1290), a collection of religious poems; The Book of the Pearl on the Truth of the Christian Religion (summarized by J. S. Assemani, edited and translated almost entirely by A. Mai), important for knowledge of Nestorian theology in the 13th century; Catalogue of Nestorian Authors and Their Works; Treatise on Canon Law.
BIBL.: J. S. Assemani, Bibliotheca orientalis, III, Rome 1725, pp. 352–60; A. Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio, X, 7, there 1838, pp. 317–66; R. Duval, La littérature syriaque, 3rd ed., Paris 1907, pp. 245–46; A. Baumstark, Geschichte der syr. Litteratur, Bonn 1922, pp. 323–25. Severio Pericoli Ridolfini