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Discursive formations, ascetic piety and the interpretation of early Christian literature / Editor: Vincent L. Wimbush.

Contributor(s): Wimbush, Vincent L
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia : an experimental journal for biblical criticism: 57, 58.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press, 1992Description: 2 volumes ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Christian literature, Early | Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Contents:
[v. 1] Case of the blinking I : discourse of the self at Qumran / Carol A. Newsom -- Like dogs barking : Cynic parresia and shameless asceticism / Leif E. Vaage -- In praise of noble women : asceticism, patronage and honor / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Defense of the body and the discourse of appetite : continence and control in the Greco-Roman world / Gail Paterson Corrington -- Asceticism and ideology : the language of power in the pastoral epistles / Lucinda A Brown -- Language of desire : Clement of Alexandria's transformation of ascetic discourse / David G. Hunter -- Allegory and asceticism in Gregory of Nyssa / Verna E. F. Harrison -- Body as desert in The life of St. Anthony / Neal Kelsey.
[v. 2] Translocation of parental images in fourth-century ascetic texts : motifs and techniques of identity / Marilyn Nagy -- Through a glass darkly : diverse images of the APOTAKITIKOI(AI) of early Egyptian monasticism / James E. Goehring -- Demons and the perfecting of the monk's body : monastic anthropology, daemonology and asceticism / Richard Valantasis -- Ascetic behavior and color-ful language : stories about Ethiopian Moses / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Ascesis, authority and text : The acts of the Council of Saragossa / Virginia Burrus -- Regimen for salvation : medical models in Manichaean ascetisim / Jason David BeDuhn -- Response: Old water in new bottles : the contemporary prospects for the study of asceticism / Geoffrey Galt Harpham

[v. 1] Case of the blinking I : discourse of the self at Qumran / Carol A. Newsom -- Like dogs barking : Cynic parresia and shameless asceticism / Leif E. Vaage -- In praise of noble women : asceticism, patronage and honor / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Defense of the body and the discourse of appetite : continence and control in the Greco-Roman world / Gail Paterson Corrington -- Asceticism and ideology : the language of power in the pastoral epistles / Lucinda A Brown -- Language of desire : Clement of Alexandria's transformation of ascetic discourse / David G. Hunter -- Allegory and asceticism in Gregory of Nyssa / Verna E. F. Harrison -- Body as desert in The life of St. Anthony / Neal Kelsey.

[v. 2] Translocation of parental images in fourth-century ascetic texts : motifs and techniques of identity / Marilyn Nagy -- Through a glass darkly : diverse images of the APOTAKITIKOI(AI) of early Egyptian monasticism / James E. Goehring -- Demons and the perfecting of the monk's body : monastic anthropology, daemonology and asceticism / Richard Valantasis -- Ascetic behavior and color-ful language : stories about Ethiopian Moses / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Ascesis, authority and text : The acts of the Council of Saragossa / Virginia Burrus -- Regimen for salvation : medical models in Manichaean ascetisim / Jason David BeDuhn -- Response: Old water in new bottles : the contemporary prospects for the study of asceticism / Geoffrey Galt Harpham

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