01022nas a2200133   4500008003900000245010700039210006900146300001000215490000700225520057800232653001100810100002500821856004200846       2004                          d00aWithout Mushe of Nisibis, Where Would we Be? Some Reflections on the Transmission of Syriac Literature0 aWithout Mushe of Nisibis Where Would we Be Some Reflections on t  a15-240 v563 a<p>Tiresome delays when dealing with tax officials are a familiar enough feature of every age, and so one can have sympathy with Mushe/Moses of Nisibis, the Abbot of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery in Egypt, who experienced a particularly long delay at the tax offices in Baghdad well over a thousand years ago. Without the good use to which Mushe put this delay, however, the topics covered by this, and other Syriac Symposia, would necessarily have been very different from what they are and have been. In this paper I hope to explain why and how.&nbsp;<br />
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