Fear of God and the Beginning of WisdomThe School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C. E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the Church of the East more generally in the late antique and early Islamic periods. Adam H. Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of