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1 online resource (437 pages) |
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| Summary |
A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning."Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecia. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Bible. |
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Bible. |
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Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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| Chronological Term |
30-600 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Print version: Clark, Elizabeth A. Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691005126 |
| ISBN |
9781400823185 (electronic book) |
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1400823188 (electronic book) |
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