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Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East

Contributor(s): Krueger, Derek (Author)

ISBN: 9780812221473

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Pub Date: March 23, 2011

Dewey: 270.2

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.90" L x 5.90" W ( 1.01 lbs) 312 pages

Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

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Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art.

Review Quotes: "A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography."-- "Speculum"

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