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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathy L Gaca |
| ISBN: | 0520235991 9780520235991 |
| OCLC Number: | 50417221 |
| Description: | xvii, 359 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Ancient Greek sexual blueprints for social order -- I: Greek philosophical sexual reforms -- Desire's hunger and Plato the regulator -- Crafting eros through the stoic logos of nature -- The reproductive technology of the Pythagoreans -- II: Greek biblical sexual rules and their reworking by Paul and Philo -- Rival plans for God's sexual program in the Pentateuch and Paul -- From the Prophets to Paul: Converting whore culture into the Lord's veiled bride -- Philo's reproductive city of God -- III: Patristic transformations of the philosophical, Pauline, and philonic rules -- Driving Aphrodite from the world: Tatian and his encratite argument -- Prophylactic grace in clement's emergent church sexual ethic -- The fornicating justice of Epiphanes -- Conclusion: The demise of Greek eros and reproduction. |
| Series Title: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.; Hellenistic culture and society, 40. |
| Responsibility: | Kathy L. Gaca. |
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