Death as Dreaming and Sleeping in the Epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus Cover Image

A halál mint álom és alvás Nazianzi Gergely epigrammáiban
Death as Dreaming and Sleeping in the Epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus

Author(s): István M. Ledán
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Biblical studies
Published by: Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület
Keywords: death;dream (oneiric);Gregory of Nazianzus;

Summary/Abstract: In his epigrams, Gregory o f Nazianzus time and again speaks about the dead ones as sleepers. In this paper we examine the Greco-Roman and biblical background o f this well-known‘sleeping o f death’-theme, and we conclude that the sleeping o f death in Gregory’s usage is nothing more than an eschatologically neutral literary platitude.

  • Issue Year: 109/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 245-256
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian