Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts

Integrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Gregory of Nyssa''s tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory''s interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine incomprehensibility. However, true to Exodus, Gregory continues with Moses''s vision of the tabernacle ''not made with hands'' received within ...