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Itinerant E.-Syr. scholar. Pawlos is primarily known through a mid-6th-cent.
Latin manual of biblical interpretation, authored by Junillus Africanus.
Junillus names as his main authority ‘a certain man called Pawlos, a Persian
by origin, who was educated at the Syrian School in the city of
It may have been the same Pawlos who had a debate with a Manichaean in
Constantinople in 527. The text of this is preserved in Greek, along with
the refutation of a pamphlet written by (probably) the same Manichaean.
Scholars in the past also tried to fuse Pawlos’s identity with that of