Life of Moses

De vita Moysis

Written about 390 to 394; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The life of Moses read as the endless climb of the soul to God.

Treatise · first written in Greek · a major work

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Date written probable: Daniélou, "La chronologie des oeuvres de Grégoire de Nysse" (1966); May (1971); Quasten, Patrology vol. 3 (1960): a work of his old age
Place written not known: Not stated in the work. Gregory was bishop of Nyssa but travelled much in these years; see his entry in authors.json (Maraval; Quasten, Patrology vol. 3 (1960))