Moses's Damascus Road Theophany: Rewriting Scripture in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses
As Gregory of Nyssa retells Moses's encounter with God in the burning bush in V. Mos. Book 1, he adds many elements absent from the biblical text. Many of these additions have correspondences to Paul's Damascus Road theophany in Acts 9.1-19, 22.6-16, and 26.12-23. By comparing the text of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2018]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-274 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gregorius, Nyssenus 335-394, De vita Moysis
/ Exodus
/ Bekehrung des Saulus
/ Theophany
/ Allegoric exegesis
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | As Gregory of Nyssa retells Moses's encounter with God in the burning bush in V. Mos. Book 1, he adds many elements absent from the biblical text. Many of these additions have correspondences to Paul's Damascus Road theophany in Acts 9.1-19, 22.6-16, and 26.12-23. By comparing the text of V. Mos. 1.19.14-1.20 with Acts, we see that Gregory incorporates Pauline elements into his narrative of the burning bush theophany. This creates a hybrid narrative that effectively weaves a new text that presents an account of the episode that is more in line with Gregory's christological interpretation of the event. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2018.0020 |