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ancient Mediterranean religions
Anorexia Nervosa
Ante-Nicene Christian Library
apostle
ascetic practices
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Celibate
christian
Christian Church
Christian fasting and purity discourse
Christian Sage
Communal Meals
custom
De Spectaculis
Diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
early
early Christian asceticism
Early Christian Literature
epistles
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flesh
Follow
Good Life
Graeco Roman Religion
Held
Holy Man
jewish
Manichaean Past
mortification
mortification of flesh
Origen's Life
Origen’s Life
paul
pauline
Pauline Epistles
Persona
Pious Jew
religious dietary restrictions
sexual renunciation history
Tertullian's Time
Tertullian’s Time
True Gnostic
Vegetarian Diet
Vita Antonii
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415135955
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body. Winner of the 1995 Routledge Ancient History Prize
Veronika Grimm, Wolfson College, Oxford.
