Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity / Jennifer Wright Knust.

Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those mark...

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Main Author: Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Series:Gender, theory, and religion.
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