Nemesius of Emesa on human nature: a cosmopolitan anthropology from Roman Syria

Nemesius of Emesa's On Human Nature (De Natura Hominis) is the first Christian anthropology. Written in Greek, circa 390 CE, it was read in half a dozenlanguages -- from Baghdad to Oxford -- well into the early modern period. Nemesius' text circulated in two Latin versions in the centuries...

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Main Author: Dusenbury, David Lloyd (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2021
In:Year: 2021
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Oxford early Christian studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nemesius, Emesenus, De natura hominis / Theological anthropology / Cosmology / Christian philosophy
RelBib Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Nemesius Bishop of Emesa On the nature of man
B On the nature of man (Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa)
B Philosophical Anthropology Early works to 1800
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