Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity -- Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism -- Christian asceticism before Origen -- Origen and his asce

Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these wri

Presents the first combined study of ancient ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately.

Essays that broaden the historical scope and sharpen the parameters of competitive discourses Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism,

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.