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Tables of Contents for Reading Renunciation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviation List
xv
Introduction
3
11
Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity
14
31
Reading for Asceticism
Reading in the Early Christian World
45
25
The Profits and Perils of Figurative Exegesis
70
34
Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies for Ascetic Reading
104
49
Three Models of Reading Renunciation
153
24
Rejection and Recuperation: The Old Dispensation and the New
From Reproduction to Defamilization
177
27
From Ritual to Askesis
204
29
The Exegesis of Divorce
233
26
Reading Paul
I Corinthians 7 in Early Christian Exegesis
259
71
From Paul to the Pastorals
330
41
Afterword
371
4
Bibliography
375
26
Select Index of Biblical Passages
401
8
Select General Index
409