Neilammon

Neilammon is known only as a correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium (d. c. 450), to whom Isidore addressed at least five surviving letters in the early-to-mid 5th-century Pelusium milieu of the eastern Nile Delta. The letters answer his questions about Scripture and doctrine: the meaning of "he did not know her until she bore her son" and the perpetual virginity of Mary, Christ's triumph over the powers through the cross (Colossians 2:15), the balance between God's loving-kindness and his severe justice, and the significance of the temple veil being torn. The address lines describe him variously as a deacon and physician and, in another letter, as a scholasticus (advocate or lawyer), so his precise standing is uncertain and these may even reflect more than one man of the same name; what is consistent is that Isidore treats him as an educated layman or cleric receiving instruction in biblical exegesis. Beyond these letters he is otherwise unattested, and no birth or death dates are known.