Title From feasting to fasting, the evolution of a sin : attitudes to food in late antiquity / Veronika E. Grimm

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; THE JEWISH BACKGROUND; THE GRAECO-ROMAN BACKGROUND; FOOD AND FASTING IN THE PAULINE EPISTLES; FOOD AND FASTING IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES; CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA; FOOD AND FASTING IN THE WORKS OF TERTULLIAN; FOOD AND FASTING IN ORIGEN AND EUSEBIUS; JEROME AND ASCETIC PROPAGANDA; AUGUSTINE AND ASCETIC PRACTICE; CONCLUSION; Notes; Note on the sources; Bibliography; Index Summary Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. It will be of interest to all students of Early Christianity and to those searching for historical roots of modern attitudes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Bible. New Testament fast Subject Food in the Bible. Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 Food habits -- History Fasting -- Biblical teaching Fasting -- History Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 Feeding Behavior -- history Fasting -- history Fasting -- Biblical teaching 11.51 early Christianity. RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics. Fasting Fasting -- Biblical teaching Food habits Food in the Bible Fasten Judentum Christentum Ernährung Vasten. Voedingsgewoonten. Vroege kerk. Römisches Reich Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203285522 9780203285527 0203436695 9780203436691 9781134778447 1134778449 9781134778430 1134778430

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