Opera Exegetica in Genesim, Volume 2 de Hominis Opificio - (Gregorii Nysseni Opera) by Ekkehard Mühlenberg (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book provides the Greek text of the De Hominis Opificio by Gregory of Nyssa. It is a critical edition based on the examination of ca. 120 manuscripts. The preface analyzes the transmission of the text in great detail.

Book Synopsis

The edition of De opificio hominis completes the Gregorii Nysseni Opera. This series of critical editions was initiated in 1908 by the classical philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and realized by Werner Jaeger and his disciples. Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 AD) is the true founder of a Christian philosophical anthropology. He discusses philosophical and medical concepts about the human constitution and relates them to the biblical verse Genesis 1,26-27 on the creation of the human being. Greek Christianity accepted Gregory's supplement to his brother's Basil Homilies on cosmology and transmitted both works together in a very rich manuscript tradition. Gregory's theological questions have not lost their urgency.

About the Author

Ekkehard Mühlenberg is Professor of Church History Emeritus (University of Göttingen). He has published in patristics and edited Oratio catechetica, the Epistula Canonica, and De anima et resurrectione (partially) by Gregory of Nyssa. He directs a research institute of the Patristische Kommission at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
Ekkehard Mühlenberg ist Professor emeritus für Kirchengeschichte (Universität Göttingen). Er hat in Patristik publiziert und Oratio catechetica und Epistula Canonica Gregors von Nyssa ediert. Er leitet die Arbeitsstelle der Patristischen Kommission an der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften.