Siam Bhayro: The Syro-Mesopotamian context of Bar Daisan and Sergius - Syriac scholarship in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

In this paper, I intend to argue that the late antique and early medieval Syriac traditions, in articulating an ideal of how philosophy, theology and medicine should all be studied together, should not be understood as simply reflecting a Greco-Roman ideal. Although dressed in Aristotelean garb, this phenomenon actually reflects a long-held Syro-Mesopotamian notion that associated the healing arts with the scribal or priestly guilds.