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Reading renunciation : asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity
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Reading renunciation : asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity

Author: Elizabeth A Clark
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, this work uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. It presents an  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth A Clark
ISBN: 0691005117 9780691005119 0691005125 9780691005126
OCLC Number: 40621781
Description: 420 p. ; 23 cm.
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 Askēsis --
The exegesis of divorce --
I Corinthians 7 in early Christian exegesis --
From Paul to the pastorals.
Responsibility: Elizabeth A. Clark.
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This is a magisterial work... Reading Renunciation will stand the test of scholarly time and remain an essential work in the long tradition of patristic exegesis. -- Richard Valantasis Journal of Read more...

 
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