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Reading renunciation : asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Presss, c1999.Description: xiii, 420 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691005125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0691005117
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.47 21
LOC classification:
  • BV5023 .C53 1999
Contents:
Asceticism in late ancient Christianity -- Reading in the early Christian world -- The profits and perils of figurative exegesis -- Exegetical and rhetorical strategies for ascetic reading -- Three models of reading renunciation -- From reproduction to defamilialization -- From ritual to Ask�esis -- The exegesis of divorce -- I Corinthians 7 in early Christian exegesis -- From Paul to the pastorals.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-400) and indexes.

Asceticism in late ancient Christianity -- Reading in the early Christian world -- The profits and perils of figurative exegesis -- Exegetical and rhetorical strategies for ascetic reading -- Three models of reading renunciation -- From reproduction to defamilialization -- From ritual to Ask�esis -- The exegesis of divorce -- I Corinthians 7 in early Christian exegesis -- From Paul to the pastorals.

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