Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity: V.

by Pseudo-Athanasius

This late ancient Christian treatise, preserved in Syriac and falsely attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373), exhorts female virgins to be "holy in body and spirit" (1 Cor. 7:34) and to abstain from "all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches" (1 John 1:16). Drawing on themes developed in the 'de virginitate' literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, the author instructs virgins on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042910917
• ISBN13: 9789042910911
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.6" x 9.4"