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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 Religion [A] scholarly, conscientious and provoking study -- Philip Rousseau Journal of Ecclesiastical History Read more...
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