"Elizabeth Clark reveals in devastating detail how the ascetic
project came to prevail in the culture wars of early Christianity.
By an inventive and selective interpretation of the Scriptural
texts, later writers made the texts suit their purpose. Through
arguments that are dense, supple and exciting, Clark shows us the
church fathers ruthlessly exploitating their own foundation texts.
This is a magisterial work by a major scholar."--Averil Cameron,
Keble College, University of Oxford
"No aspect of the Christian tradition seems more alien to our
own sensibilities than the ascetic temper of the late antique
Church Fathers. Without diminishing their strangeness, Elizabeth
Clark shows us just how they read their Bibles, their bodies, and
their world. The book is itself a remarkable act of reading and
writing--of 'poaching' and 'founding [her] own place'--informed by
a profound knowledge of the ancient texts and by a mastery of
postmodern critical theory."--Wayne A. Meeks, Department of
Religious Studies, Yale University
"A brilliant exploration of the consequences of late ancient
asceticism for the interpretation of the Bible. In her introductory
chapter, Elizabeth Clark essentially revises and reverses the
regnant historical notion of a peculiarly fourth-century ascetic
movement, and argues instead that the ascetic movement has its
roots in the very seedbeds of Christianity, indeed in its very
Jewish soil. That demonstration alone would be worth the price of
admission to this book, but it is only the appetizer, for she goes
on to treat in detail and with clarity and verve the consequences
of the patristic promotion of celibacy for the interpretation of
the Bible. This book isindispensable for students of early
Christianity, early Judaism, the Bible and the foundations of
western interpretation in general."--Daniel Boyarin, Taubman
Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at
Berkeley
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