READING RENUNCIATION: ASCETICISM AND SCRIPTURE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY. By Elizabeth A. Clark. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1999. Pp. xiii + 420. $21.95.

This book is the serious, thoughtful, and mature work of a serious and mature scholar. It is, as always the case with Clark's work, wonderfully written, thoroughly researched, tightly yet creatively conceptualized. It is a major contribution to research on and general thinking about early Christian asceticism and Scripture and a complex of related topics and issues. The book will surely be well received and ...

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