Enanisho
ʿEnanishoʿ (Syriac: ܥܢܢܝܫܘܥ, also romanized "ʿAnanishoʿ" or "ʿNānišoʿ") was a monk, philosopher, lexicographer and translator of the Church of the East who flourished in the 7th century.

ʿEnanishoʿ was from the region of Adiabene. He and his brother Ishoʿyahb studied at the school of Nisibis at the same time as the future patriarch Ishoʿyahb III (). His brother went on to become bishop of Shenna, while he entered the monastery of Mar Abraham on Mount Izla. He later made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the monasteries of Scetis in Egypt, becoming well acquainted with Greek literature and Egyptian monasticism. Upon his return he joined the monastery of Beth ʿAbe.

At Beth ʿAbe, ʿEnanishoʿ took up writing. He wrote a philosophical treatise on "definitions and divisions" and a glossary of difficult words to aid in reading the Church Fathers. He wrote "Book of Rules for Homographs" about Syriac homographs, words having the same spelling (i.e., consonants) but different pronunciation (i.e., vowels) and meaning. He collaborated with Ishoʿyahb III to revise the "Ḥudrā", a liturgical book containing the hymns for Sunday services in the East Syriac rite. Ishoʿyahb's successor, Giwargis I (), then commissioned him to compile the "Paradise of the Fathers", a collection of Syriac translations of Greek works. This major compilation comprises four books: the "Lausiac History" of Palladius of Helenopolis, another work of history attributed to Palladius, the "History of the Monks in Egypt" attributed to Jerome and a collection of sayings of the Desert Fathers. The last book contains some original material based on ʿEnanishoʿ's visit to Scetis and is divided into fifteen chapters, the first fourteen are arranged topically and the last is an unsystematic grouping. It had a major influence on East Syriac monasticism. A commentary on it was written before the end of the century by Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya. According to Thomas of Marga, a copy was kept in every monastery in the Church of the East.
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