Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece
Material type: TextPublication details: Collegeville, Minnesota Liturgical Press 2010Description: 571p ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780814656976
- H30 22 L371
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"A Michael Glazier book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-534) and indexes.
Sexual restraint within the context of a cosmic household -- Intermarriage : a threat to the household as the enduring matrix of personal identity? -- Sex and the holy : erotic synergy or warfare? -- Virginity and chastity : feminine ideals integral to the patriarchal household -- Composite guardian figures : tension at the cosmic junctures -- Celibacy as a proleptic death and a quest for transcendence -- Communion with the real : the goal of celibacy.
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