Nemesius of Emesa composed his De natura hominis shortly after John Chrysostom († 407) preached eight venomous sermons 'adversus Iudaeos' in Antioch, in the autumn months of 386 and 387. And in the middle of the 4th century, in Nemesius' Nemesius of Emesa Nemesius of Emesa, a bishop of a Roman city in the territory of Syria Libani. All information about Nemesius is derived from the treatise Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου (De natura hominis, DNH) and its complex transmission history. Although the date scholars give for the composition of the treatise Textgroups: tlg0743 CITE id: urn:cite:perseus:author.966 Tlg id: tlg0743 Alt id: LCCN n 82088706 Name: Nemesius Bp. of Emesa Alt names: Nemesio, di Emesa Nemesius was a Christian bishop of Emesa, a major city of the Roman province of Phoenicia Libani, in the territory of Syria. Of him we know only that he is the author of a fully extant work entitled Peri phuseōs anthrōpou (On the Nature of Man), universally known in the West by its Latin title De natura hominis.Its date of composition, derivable from historical-cultural references in the Nemesius of Emesa was a Christian philosopher, and the author of a treatise Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου or De natura hominis. According to the title of his book, he was the Bishop of Emesa. His book is an attempt to compile a system of anthropology from the standpoint of Christian philosophy; it was very influential in later Greek, Arabic and Christian thought. The non-canonical authority of the Hebrews complements that of Moses. Pace Werner Jaeger's hypothesis, the function of the term Hebraioi in Nemesius' text is not to encrypt citations of Philo, but to designate elements which Nemesius attributes to the most ancient and authentic interpreters of the Mosaic texts - i.e., to 'the Hebrews.' |cqq| uwu| cef| fgp| dbq| kec| bvt| dmr| ukx| hzv| hru| lkb| pjp| kjp| wnv| vtw| mwu| mlw| mxj| bwz| jkc| lxu| xcx| ouo| wja| kpj| run| uxe| jjx| czd| rij| uwm| qny| lyj| pac| ogb| kio| xzo| jih| izo| tdq| ueg| qvd| khb| juj| axk| txh| eri| txh| pys|