Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Contributors
Foreword by James M. Robinson
Preface by Elizabeth A. Clark
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Map of Greco-Roman World (Eastern Roman Empire)
Introduction
P ART ONE. Homily
1. Jacob of Serug, Homily on Simeon the Stylite
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
2. Homily: On Virginity
Teresa M. Shaw
3. Origen, Homily I on Ezekiel
Joseph W. Trigg
4. On Hermits and Desert Dwellers
Joseph P. Amar
5. Pseudo-Macarius the Egyptian, Homily IV
Richard Valantasis
P ART Two. Philosophical and Theological Exhortation
6. Ambrosiaster, On the Sin of Adam and Eve
David G. Hunter
7. Cynic Epistles (Selections)
Leif E. Vaage
8. Musonius Rufus, On Training (Discourse VI)
Leif E. Vaage
9. Philo, On the Contemplative Life: Or, On the Suppliants
(The Fourth Book on the Virtues)
Gail Paterson Corrington
10. Julian of Eclanum, To Florus (in Augustine, The Unfinished
Work Against Julian)
Elizabeth A. Clark
1 1 . Stobaeus, Anthology (Excerpts)
Vincent L. Wimbush
12. Evagrius Ponticus, The Kephalaia Gnostica
David Bundy
13. Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia of the Teacher (Selections)
Michael H. Browder
14. The Nazirite in Ancient Judaism (Selected Texts)
Steven D. Fraade
P ART THREE. Ritual and Revelation
15. Heki\'l[8t Rabbi\'lt! §§297-306: A Ritual for the Cultivation
of the Prince of the Torah
Michael D. Swartz
16. Allogenes (Nag Hammadi Codex XI, 3)
Richard Valantasis
1 7. Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus (Selections)
Michael O\'Laughlin
PART FOUR. Life and Teachings
18. Pseudo-Athanasius, The Life and Activity of the Holy and
Blessed Teacher syncletica
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Elizabeth A. Castelli 265
19. Zacharias, The Life of Sever us
Robin A. Darling Young
20. Ethiopian Moses (Collected Sources)
Kathleen O\'Brien Wicker
2 1 . Theodore\'s Entry into the Pachomian Movement
(Selections from Life of Pachomius)
James E. Goehring
22. Jerome, Life of Paul, The First Hermit
Paul B. Harvey, Jr.
23. The Story of Mygdonia and Tertia from the Acts of Thomas
Virginia Burrus and Karen Jo Torjesen
24. Chaeremon the Stoic on Egyptian Temple Askesis
(From Porphyry, On Abstinence 4:6-8)
Anitra Bingham Kolenkow
25. The Life of Chariton
Leah Di Segni
P ART FIVE. Documentary Evidence
26. Life of Chariton: In Light of Archaeological Research
Yizhar Hirschfeld
27. Canons from the Council of Gangra
O. Larry Yarbrough
28. Egyptian Monasticism (Selected Papyri)
Robert F. Boughner and James E. Goehring
Chronological Tables
Selected Bibliography of Summary or
Comprehensive Treatments
Indexes