Reading Renunciation : : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity / / Elizabeth A. Clark.
A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examina...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviation List
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO. Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity
- CHAPTER THREE. Reading in the Early Christian World
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Profits and Perils of Figurative Exegesis
- CHAPTER FIVE. Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies for Ascetic Reading
- CHAPTER SIX. Three Models of Reading Renunciation
- CHAPTER SEVEN. From Reproduction to Defamilialization
- CHAPTER EIGHT. From Ritual to Askēsis
- CHAPTER NINE. The Exegesis of Divorce
- CHAPTER TEN. I Corinthians 7 in Early Christian Exegesis
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. From Paul to the Pastorals
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Select Index of Biblical Passages
- Select General Index