1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704278403321

Titolo

Burma's challenge : democracy, human rights, peace, and the plight of the Rohingya : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, October 21, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 71 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Rohingya (Burmese people)

Humanitarian assistance, American

Human rights - Burma

Democracy - Burma

Economic assistance, American

Democracy

Diplomatic relations

Human rights

Legislative hearings.

Burma Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Burma

Burma

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

"Serial No. 114-117."

Title from title screen (viewed Jan.12, 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780064303321

Autore

Clark Elizabeth A (Elizabeth Ann), <1938-2021.>

Titolo

Reading renunciation : asceticism and scripture in early Christianity / / Elizabeth A. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1999

ISBN

1-4008-0123-0

9786612753770

1-282-75377-0

1-4008-2318-8

1-4008-1124-4

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 pages)

Disciplina

248.4/7/09015

Soggetti

Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-400) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviation List -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity -- CHAPTER THREE. Reading in the Early Christian World -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Profits and Perils of Figurative Exegesis -- CHAPTER FIVE. Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies for Ascetic Reading -- CHAPTER SIX. Three Models of Reading Renunciation -- CHAPTER SEVEN. From Reproduction to Defamilialization -- CHAPTER EIGHT. From Ritual to Askēsis -- CHAPTER NINE. The Exegesis of Divorce -- CHAPTER TEN. I Corinthians 7 in Early Christian Exegesis -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. From Paul to the Pastorals -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Select Index of Biblical Passages -- Select General Index

Sommario/riassunto

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning."



Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.