| Description |
xxvii, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Studies in antiquity & Christianity |
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Studies in antiquity and Christianity.
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| Contents |
Homily. Jacob of Serug, Homily on Simeon the Stylite / Susan Ashbrook Harvey ; Homily : On virginity / Teresa M. Shaw ; Origen, Homily I on Ezekiel / Joseph W. Trigg ; On hermits and desert dwellers / Joseph P. Amar ; Pseudo-Macarius the Egyptian, Homily IV / Richard Valantasis -- Philosophical and theological exhortation. Ambrosiaster, On the sin of Adam and Eve / David G. Hunter ; Cynic epistles (selections) / Leif E. Vaage ; Musonius Rufus, On training (Discourse VI) / Leif E. Vaage ; Philo, On the contemplative life: or, On the suppliants (The fourth book of virtues) / Gail Paterson Corrington ; Julian of Eclanum, To Florus (in Augustine, The unfinished work against Julian) / Elizabeth A. Clark ; Stobaeus, Anthology (excerpts) / Vincent L. Wimbush ; Evagrius Ponticus, The Kephalaia Gnostica / David Bundy ; Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia of the Teacher (seletions) / Michael H. Browder ; The Nazirite in ancient Judaism (selected texts) / Steven D. Fraade -- Ritual and revelation. Hêkālôt Rabbātî SS297-306: a ritual for the cultivation of the Prince of the Torah / Michael D. Swartz ; Allogenes (Nag Hammadi Codex XI, 3) / Richard Valantasis ; Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus (Selections) / Michael O'Laughlin -- Life and teachings. Pseudo-Athanasius, The life and activity of the holy and blessed teacher Syncletica / Elizabeth A. Castelli ; Zacharias, The life of Severus / Robin A. Darling Young ; Ethiopian Moses (collected sources) / Kathleen O'Brien Wicker ; Theodore'e entry into the Pachomian movement (selections from Life of Pachomius) / James E. Goehring ; Jerome, Life of Paul, the first hermit / Paul B. Harvey, Jr. ; The story of Mygdonia and Tertia from the Acts of Thomas / Virginia Burrus and Karen Jo Torjesen ; Chaeremon the Stoic on Egyptian temple askesis (from Porphyry, On abstinence 4:6=8) / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow ; The life of Chariton / Leah Di Segni -- Documentary evidence. Life of Chariton : in light of archaeological research / Yizhar Hirschfeld ; Canons from the Council of Gangra / O. Larry Yarbrough ; Egyptian monasticism (selected papyri) / Robert F. Boughner and James E. Goehring. |
| Note |
Translations from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-487) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Asceticism -- History -- Early church, approximately 30-600 -- Sources.
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Asceticism -- History -- Sources.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- History -- Sources.
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Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Wimbush, Vincent L.
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| ISBN |
0800631056 alkaline paper $41.95 |
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