Original sentence: As a monk of the important monastery of Beth ‘Abe, and later the secretary of the patriarch Abraham I (832–50), he had access to a wide range of written sources, including the correspondence of the patriarch Timothy I, and could also draw on the traditions of his old monastery and the long memories of its monks.Besides such records, a number of local histories of monasteries in northern Mesopotamia were written at this period (in particular Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors, the History of Rabban Bar ‘Idta, the History of Rabban Hormizd the Persian, the History of Mar Sabrisho‘ of Beth Qoqa and the Life of Rabban Joseph Busnaya) and these histories, together with a number of hagiographical accounts of the lives of notable holy men, occasionally mention bishops of the northern Mesopotamian dioceses
Edited sentence: As a monk of the important monastery of Beth `Abe, and later the secretary of the patriarch Abraham I (832–50), he had access to a wide range of written sources, including the correspondence of the patriarch Timothy I, and could also draw on the traditions of his old monastery and the long memories of its monks.Besides such records, a number of local histories of monasteries in northern Mesopotamia were written at this period (in particular Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors, the History of Rabban Bar `Idta, the History of Rabban Hormizd the Persian, the History of Mar Sabrisho` of Beth Qoqa and the Life of Rabban Joseph Busnaya) and these histories, together with a number of hagiographical accounts of the lives of notable holy men, occasionally mention bishops of the northern Mesopotamian dioceses