Gregory of Nyssa as biographer : weaving lives for virtuous readers /

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Author / Creator:Gray, Allison L., 1983- author.
Imprint:Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]
©2021
Description:xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Series:Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 1436-3003 ; 123
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 123.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12627373
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ISBN:9783161575587
316157558X
9783161575594 (PDF ebook)
Notes:Revised thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and indexes.
Summary:"The theologian Gregory of Nyssa wrote biographies of his sister, a local bishop, and Moses. Allison L. Gray shows that he adapts techniques from Greco-Roman biographical writing in these texts to create narratives that are suited to a specifically Christian form of education, focused on virtue and scriptural interpretation."
Other form:9783161575594 e-book version
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