Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman world / Richard Finn.
"Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first t...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
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2009.
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| Series: | Key themes in ancient history.
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