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* These letters do not join to the following letter (to the left). In some older texts, all letters can join to the left. In some styles of Madnhāyā script, Taw-Ālaph form a ligature, whereas Taw does not usually join to the left.

Narsai and Jacob timeline

 * c.399 — Narsai born at ‘Ain Dulba in Ma‘alta
 * 412 — Rabbula becomes bishop of Edessa
 * 431 — Council of Ephesus: Rabbula supporst Cyril of Alexandria and burns the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia
 * 435 — Rabbula dies and Ibas becomes bishop of Edessa
 * c.437 — Narsai begins to teach at the School of Edessa
 * 449 — Ibas condemned by the Latrocinium of Ephesus, and replaced by Nonnus
 * 451 — Ibas restored by the Council of Chalcedon
 * 451 — Jacob born in Kurtam on the Euphrates
 * 457 — Ibas dies and is succeded by Nonnus
 * 471 — Cyrus becomes bishop of Edessa, and Narsai leaves for Nisibis
 * 489 — Emperor Zeno closes the School of Edessa
 * 496 — The Statutes of the School of Nisibis show Narsai is still alive there
 * c.502 — Narsai dies in Nisibis
 * 503 — Shah Kavadh I lays bitter siege to Amid
 * 519 — Jacob elected as bishop of Batnan da-Srugh
 * 519–520 — Jacob writes a letter to the Ḥimyarite Christians of Najrān
 * 29 Novemeber 521 — Jacob dies in Batnan da-Srugh

School of Nisibis timeline (from Becker)

 * 363 — Julian the Apostate dies; Nisibis ceded to the Sasanian Empire; Ephrem of Nisibis migrates to Edessa
 * 373 — Ephrem dies
 * 399 — Evagrius of Pontus dies
 * c.400 — Greek Patristic literature begins to be transalted into Syriac
 * 428 — Theodore of Mopsuestia dies
 * 431 — Council of Ephesus (Third Ecumenical Council)
 * 435/6 — Bishop Rabbula of Edessa dies
 * 449 — 'Robber' Council of Ephesus
 * 451 — Council of Chalcedon (Fourth Ecumenical Council)
 * 457 — Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, dies
 * 474–475, 476–91 — Reign of Zeno
 * 489 — Closure of the School of the Persians of Edessa
 * c.500 — Neoplatonic Commentaries begin to be translated into Syriac
 * 503 — Narsai dies after this date
 * c.510–569 — Abraham of Bēt Rabban, head of the School of Nisibis
 * 517/26 — Ammonius the Neoplatonist dies
 * 521 — Jacob of Serugh dies
 * 527–565 — Reign of Justinian
 * 531–579 — Khosro I
 * 533–543 — Three Chapters Controversy
 * c.536 — Sergius of Rēš‘aynā dies
 * 542–c.549 — Junillus Africanus, Quaestor Sacri Palatii at Justinian's court
 * 540–552 — Catholicate of Mār Abā
 * 553 — Council of Constantinople (Fifth Ecumenical Council)
 * 569 — Terminus post quem for the Ecclesiastical History of Barḥadbĕšabbā
 * 571–c.610 — Ḥĕnānā, head of the School of Nisibis; period in which the Cause was composed (probably before 605)
 * c.571 — Monastery of Abraham of Kaškar founded
 * 590–628 — Khosro II
 * 596 — East-Syrian Synod under Catholicos Sabrīšō‘
 * 602 — Proem of the Statutes of the School of Nisibis
 * 605 — East-Syrian Synod under Catholicos Gregory I
 * 612 — East-Syrian Synod under Bābai the Great
 * 614/15 — Gabriel's Colophon
 * 628 or 630 — Bābai the Great dies
 * 637 — Fall of Seleucia-Ctesiphon to the Arabs
 * 659 — Catholicos Īšō‘yahb III dies
 * late C7 — Isaac of Nineveh, Dadīšō‘ Qaṭrāyā, Simeon d-Ṭaybūtēh
 * 823 — Timothy I dies
 * late C8 – mid C9 — Īšō‘dĕnaḥ of Basra, Book of chastity
 * C9 — Thomas of Margā, Book of Governors
 * 912–1020 — Chroncile of Siirt