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Pseudoathanasius On Virginity Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium D Brakke Translator

SKU: BELL-49540122

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Pseudoathanasius On Virginity Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium D Brakke Translator instant download after payment.

Publisher: Peeters

File Extension: PDF

File size: 7.76 MB

Pages: 48

Author: D Brakke (translator)

ISBN: 9042910917

Language: English

Year: 2002

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Pseudoathanasius On Virginity Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium D Brakke Translator by D Brakke (translator) 9042910917 instant download after payment.

This late ancient Christian treatise, preserved in Syriac and falsely attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373), exhorts female virgins to be "holy in body and spirit" (1 Cor. 7:34) and to abstain from "all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches" (1 John 1:16). Drawing on themes developed in the 'de virginitate' literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, the author instructs virgins on their proper physical deportment and use of the five senses, but he incorporates into his work exhortations to purity and repentance originally addressed to a wider audience of male and female ascetics and perhaps even laity. Most likely a translation of a Greek original composed between the fifth and ninth centuries, the treatise is of interest also for its frequent and inventive use of the Bible in support of the ascetic ideal