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'''[p. 39-40]'''

JACOB OF EDESSA

(+ 708 A.D.)

''Bishop of Edessa (684-688 A.D.), the most famous writer of the Jacobite Church.
''His Hexaemeron is quoted here.
''HO III 2-3, 191f (1954) Baumstark; Graf 1, 454ff.
''Ed.:	Chabot-Vaschalde	CSCO	2,56 (1928).
''T.: MC 501 r-v. A.Hjelt, ''Études sur l’Exaemeron de Jacques d'Edesse'', Helsingfors 1892	S:1

The Arabian Gulf debauches from the western side of the Red Sea and extends northwards, stretching from the strait which lies near the land of the ''Kushâyê'' to the desert of Faran. (Hjelt, ''Études'', p. XIV-XVI).

... In the first place we have the two lakes which feed the ''Nilos'' with water, and also the ''Qolay'' Lake which pours its waters into the ''Astafôs'' River, which joins the Nile. Together with these, we place all the other lakes which the ''Nilos'' forms, and, outstandingly, the ''Mariyôtis'', which is the lake near Alexandria. (p. 24).

... To these rivers belongs ''Gihon'', also called ''Nilos'', which floods and fertilizes the land of ''Misrin''. (p. 26).

Then, opposite to the whole of ''Libuwây'' on the southern side, in front of the land of ''Kushâyê'', and the land of those whom we call ''Alodes'' and those called ''Nuqtades'' (? for Nobades) and the other ''Esperioi''. there is a land unknown and uninhabited, which God has separated (from the others) and forbidden to men, lest they should get lost and finally perish. (pp. 31-32).
 
'''[p. 40]''' In the province of ''Kushâyê'', there are mountains which extend from the south to the north and continue all along the land of ''Kushâyê'' as far as those which lie beyond the great lakes unto which the waters of the Nile flow: those are called the mountains of ''Kushâyê''. Their length is more than 2500 miles. (pp. 34-36).

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