Procope de Gaza

Procopius Gazaeus

Biographie

Greek Christian rhetorician, born around 465, perhaps the brother of Bishop Zechariah the Rhetorician. Considered the main representative of the famous school of Gaza, which cultivated oratory in the Attic Greek style, he spent most of his life in this city teaching and writing, without taking part in the theological quarrels of his time. His writings of a secular nature (including a panegyric of the Emperor Anastasius and more than one hundred and sixty letters), as well as exegetical catenae (on the Octateuch, the Books of the Kings, Isaiah, Proverbs and the Song of Songs) are among the oldest, and his main sources are Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus and Cyril of Alexandria. He died around 528.

Œuvres

• Catena in Canticum Canticorum
• Catena in Ecclesiasten
• Catena in Esaiam
• Catena in Prouerbia
• Catena in Prouerbia A

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Citations

• [OBNIg]
• [JB] Ge
• [JB] Ge 1:1
• [JB] Ge 1:10
• [JB] Ge 1:11-12

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