Reading renunciation : asceticism and Scripture in early Christianity /
Clark, Elizabeth A.(Elizabeth Ann),1938-
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-400) and indexes.
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
Bible
Asceticism