Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East. By Derek Krueger. Pp. xii + 298. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. isbn 0 8122 3819 2. 59.95/£39

This book—at once illuminating and frustrating—draws on a close reading of a selection of ascetic texts through the prism of contemporary literary theory in order to tease out a series of observations on the ways in which early Christian authors understood the nature of writing and of authorship. Kr...

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Main Author: Plested, Marcus (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2006
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 716-718
Review of:Writing and holiness (Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) (Plested, Marcus)
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