Editing Book burning (section)

=== Burning of Nestorian books (435 CE) ===
Activity by [[Cyril of Alexandria]] ({{circa}} 376–444) brought fire to almost all the writings of [[Nestorius]] (386–450) shortly after 435.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#fn1 |title=The Monks of Kublai Khan |publisher=Aina.org |access-date=2017-12-15 |archive-date=29 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229064627/http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#fn1 |url-status=live}}</ref> 'The writings of Nestorius were originally very numerous',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chapman |first1=John |date=1911 |title=Nestorius and Nestorianism |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10755a.htm |url-status=live |access-date=25 January 2018 |website=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]] |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |location=New York |via=[[New Advent]] |archive-date=4 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904014035/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10755a.htm}}</ref> however, they were not part of the Nestorian or Oriental theological curriculum until the mid-sixth century, unlike those of his teacher [[Theodore of Mopsuestia]], and those of [[Diodorus of Tarsus]], even then they were not key texts, so relatively few survive intact.{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2003|}}{{Citation needed|reason=Exact page needed, verification not possible|date=February 2025}}