Allison L. Gray

Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer

Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers
[Gregor von Nyssa als Biograph. Wie er Lebensgeschichten für tugendhafte Leser wob.]
2021. XIII, 290 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-157559-4
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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.

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity (STAC)