alternative
Alternative Symbolic Universe
Ancient Asceticism
Ascetic Discipline
Ascetic Literature
Ascetic Practice
ascetical
Ascetical Text
asceticism in New Testament scholarship
biblical self-denial
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Celibate
Christian Asceticism
christianity
Deutero-Pauline Epistles
Dominant Social Environment
earliest
early
Early Christian Asceticism
early Christian ethics
Early Jesus Movement
Early Jesus Tradition
epistles
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False Teachings
Follow
Greco-Roman religious practices
Holding
Household Code
Johannine Community
Luke's Portrayal
Luke’s Portrayal
pastoral
Pastoral Epistles
practices
religious discipline studies
scriptural interpretation theory
Sexual Renunciation
social identity in antiquity
symbolic
Thecla
universe
Violating
Wandered
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415921961
- Weight: 850g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental religions. The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament. Looking at the New Testament from an ascetic perspective asks questions about issues including the milieu of Jesus and Paul, and the social practices of self-denial, and considers the Scriptural texts in light of a desire to separate oneself from the world. In interpreting all the books in the New Testament, this collection is the first effort to take seriously the crucial role played by asceticism--and its detractors--in the formation of the New Testament.
Leif E. Vaage is Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis of Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Galilean Upstarts (1994). Vincent L.Wimbush is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Union Theological Seminary. He has edited several books and is the author of Paul the WorldlyAscetic (1987).
