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    This document is a book about how early Christians interpreted scripture to support asceticism. It contains 11 chapters exploring how biblical passages were exegeted and rhetorically employed to advocate renunciation of family, ritual, and marriage. The book examines various models of ascetic reading and their development in early Christian thought.

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    Reading Renunciation

    Elizabeth A. Clark

    Published by Princeton University Press

    Clark, Elizabeth A.
    Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity.
    Core Textbook ed. Princeton University Press, 1999.
    Project MUSE.muse.jhu.edu/book/29802.

    For additional information about this book


    https://muse.jhu.edu/book/29802

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    Contents

    Acknowledgments xi

    Abbreviation List xv

    C H A P T E R O N E Introduction 3

    C H A P T E R T W O Asceticism in Late Ancient


    Christianity 14

    Reading for Asceticism

    C H A P T E R T H R E E Reading in the Early


    Christian World 45

    C H A P T E R F O U R The Profits and Perils of


    Figurative Exegesis 70

    C H A P T E R F I V E Exegetical and Rhetorical


    Strategies for Ascetic Reading 104

    C H A P T E R S I X Three Models of Reading


    Renunciation 153

    Rejection and Recuperation:


    The Old Dispensation
    and the New

    C H A P T E R S E V E N From Reproduction to
    Defamilialization 177

    C H A P T E R E I G H T From Ritual to Askēsis 204

    C H A P T E R N I N E The Exegesis of Divorce 233


    x Contents
    Reading Paul

    C H A P T E R T E N I Corinthians 7 in Early
    Christian Exegesis 259

    C H A P T E R E L E V E N From Paul to the Pastorals 330

    Afterword 371

    Bibliography 375

    Select Index of
    Biblical Passages 401

    Select General Index 409

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