Title Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman world / Richard Finn.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 182 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Key themes in ancient history
	Key themes in ancient history.
Contents	Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity -- Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism -- Christian asceticism before Origen -- Origen and his ascetic legacy -- Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Origen.
	Origen.
	Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
	Ascetics -- Rome.
Chronological Term	30-600
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Finn, R.D. (Richard Damian), 1963- Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman world. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521862813 (DLC) 2009009367 (OCoLC)297147108
ISBN	9780511651229 (electronic book)
	0511651228 (electronic book)
	0521862817 (cloth)
	9780521862813 (cloth)
	9780521681544 (paper)
	0521681545 (paper)
	0511609876 (electronic book)
	9780511609879 (electronic book)
	9780521862813 (hardback)