Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East

by Derek Krueger

Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness probes saints' lives and hymns produced in the Greek East to reveal how the ascetic call to imitate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221478
• ISBN13: 9780812221473
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"