Reading renunciation :

Clark, Elizabeth A. 1938-

Reading renunciation : asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Presss, c1999. - xiii, 420 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

0691005125 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0691005117


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.


Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BV5023 / .C53 1999

248.47