Adam (monk)

Adam / Jingjing
ܐܕܡ / 景淨
"Adam" in Syriac in the Xian Nestorian Stele, in Hebrew and in Written Hebrew (reads from right to left)
Personal life
Born750/751 CE
China
Diedunknown, but after 781 CE
China
Flourished8th century CE
OccupationDeacon
Religious life
ReligionChristianity
SchoolNestorianism

Adam (Syriac: ܐܕܡ Adam), also known by his Chinese name Jingjing (Chinese: 景淨; pinyin: Jǐngjìng; Wade–Giles: Ching3-ching4), was an 8th-century Syriac Christian monk and scholar in China. He composed the text on the Nestorian Stele, which described the history of the Church of the East in China from 635 to 781. Many scholars believe he is also the author of the later Jingjiao Documents.

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