TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Elizabeth A. TI - Reading renunciation: asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity SN - 0691005125 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BV5023 .C53 1999 U1 - 248.47 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Presss KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Asceticism N1 - 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 ER -