DADISOʿ QATRAYA (late 7th century), Nestorian author of ascetic literature in Syriac. Presumably a native of Qaṭar, as his surname suggests, he lived for a time at the monastery of Rabban Šābūr, near Šostar in Ḵūzestān. His writings included commentaries on the Paradise of the Fathers and on the 26 “discourses” of Abbā Isaiah; fragments of the latter are found in Sogdian translation. Columbia Un
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