The Chorepiscopus Abd Yeshu of Qusur
(1750)
Abd Yeshu is son of Nimat Allah. He was born at the village Qusur and studied the Syriac language and mastered its calligraphy. In 1718 he was ordained a priest for Diyarbakr and a chorepiscopus in 1738. He died after 1751. He composed six rhymed odes in the heptasyllabic meter in praise of some dignitaries of his time. In the first ode, which he composed in 1713 while still a deacon, he praised the achievements of the Patriarch Jurjis II.643 In another ode he eulogized the two martyrs Maphrian Shimun and Metropolitan Rizq Allah.644 His verse is good but involved in some parts.