Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity

The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Weidemann. With an introduction by Elizabeth A. Clark.

How to make asceticism fit into Christianity: 21 contributions (five of them in german) are structured by three thematic fields: 1) New Testament Texts and their Ascetic Reception; 2) Ascetic Texts and their Reception of the New Testament: Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean; 3) Ascetic Texts and their Reception of the New Testament: Literature of the Western Mediterranean. Including contributions by Andreas Merkt, Martin Meiser, Michael Theobald, Thomas R. Karmann, Liesbeth Van der Sypt, Jeremy W. Barrier, Judith L. Kovacs, Catherine M. Chin, Andrew S. Jacobs, Virginia Burrus, Johan Leemans, Brian J. Matz, David Brakke, Mariya Horyacha, Samuel Moawad, Stephen J. Davis, Andreas Hoffmann, David G. Hunter, Hans-Ulrich Weidemann and Elizabeth A. Clark. From the beginning many of the early Christian communities led an ascetic lifestyle, although a good number of New Testament texts do not seem suitable for justifying radical ascetic and encratite practice. The question thus arises how the different forms of asceticism could be justified on the basis of those scriptures.The articles of the volume focus on the interpretation and application of New Testament texts in various ascetic milieus and in the works of several early Christian authors and on the reception history of New Testament texts either supporting or resisting an ascetic relecture. 464 Seiten, gebunden (NTOA/StUNT - Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus - Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments; Band 101/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear