Self-Portrait in Three Colors CHRISTIANITY in LATE ANTIQUITY the OFFICIAL BOOK SERIES of the NORTH AMERICAN PATRISTICS SOCIETY Editor: Christopher A

Self-Portrait in Three Colors CHRISTIANITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY THE OFFICIAL BOOK SERIES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PATRISTICS SOCIETY Editor: Christopher A. Beeley, Yale University Associate Editors: Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America International Advisory Board: Lewis Ayres, Durham University • John Behr, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York • Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Marie-Odile Boulnois, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris • Kimberly D. Bowes, University of Pennsylvania and the American Academy in Rome • Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University • Stephen Davis, Yale University • Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, University of California Santa Barbara • Mark Edwards, University of Oxford • Susanna Elm, University of California Berkeley • Thomas Graumann, Cambridge University• Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America• David G. Hunter, University of Kentucky • Andrew S. Jacobs, Scripps College • Robin M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame • AnneMarie Luijendijk, Princeton University • Christoph Markschies, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin • Andrew B. McGowan, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale • Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien • Samuel Rubenson, Lunds Universitet • Rita Lizzi Testa, Università degli Studi di Perugia

1. Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity, by Yonatan Moss 2. Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs 3. Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family, edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder 4. The Body and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Ascetical Theology, by Raphael A. Cadenhead 5. Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith, by Jeffrey Wickes 6. Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Epistolary Autobiography, by Bradley K. Storin 7. Gregory of Nazianzus’s Letter Collection: The Complete Translation, translated by Bradley K. Storin 8. Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity, by Maria Doerfler Self-Portrait in Three Colors Gregory of Nazianzus’s Epistolary Autobiography

Bradley K. Storin

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press Oakland, California

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Names: Storin, Bradley K., author. Title: Self-portrait in three colors : Gregory of Nazianzus’s epistolary autobiography / Bradley K. Storin. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: lccn 2019003238 (print) | lccn 2019009918 (ebook) | isbn 9780520972940 () | isbn 9780520304130 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. Correspondence. | Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint—Criticism and interpretation. Classification: lcc pa3998.g73 (ebook) | lcc pa3998.g73 s76 2019 (print) | ddc 886/.01—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019003238

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