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

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.
Subject:	Gregory, -- of Nyssa, Saint, -- approximately 335-approximately 394. -- Vita Moysis. Gregory, -- of Nyssa, Saint, -- approximately 335-approximately 394. -- Vita Sanctae Macrinae. Gregory, -- of Nyssa, Saint, -- approximately 335-approximately 394. -- Vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi. Vita Sanctae Macrinae (Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint) Religious biography -- History and criticism. Religious biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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
Standard no.:	9783161575587

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