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At once profoundly counter-cultural and related to secular society, ascetic movements left rich, fascinating, and often difficult to interpret literary documents. The twenty-eight texts translated in Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity are an invaluable resource for reconstructing the ascetic movements of the ancient world in all their diversity, volatility, and contemporary excitement. These texts reveal not only the assumptions, values, and teachings of ascetic authors but also the practices by which ascetic women and men wove these commitments into their bodies and life-styles. As a sourcebook, this volume contributes generouslyacross religious and philosophical persuasionsto our knowledge of asceticism in antiquity. Margaret R. Miles, Harvard Divinity School

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• Full title: Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity
• Author: Vincent L. Wimbush
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 544
• EAN: 9780800631055
• ISBN: 0800631056
• ID: 11520122
• Publisher: TRINITY PR INTL
• Weight: 1057 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 165 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: September 1998

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