Bardaisan
Syrian gnostic, scientist, philosopher and poet
- Lived
- 154–222
Updated September 2026
About Bardaisan
Bardaisan, known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Christian writer and teacher with a Gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites.
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