A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical tradit...

''One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who h...

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This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These...

The American and European public has a voracious appetite for more information about Jesus and th...

This volume offers the first full commentary on the Gospel of Thomas, a work which has previously...

The four canonical gospels arose in unique circumstances in different parts of the Roman Empire. ...

From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring...

This volume offers the first full commentary on the Gospel of Thomas, a work which has previously...

''One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who h...

The four canonical gospels arose in unique circumstances in different parts of the Roman Empire. ...

A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical tradit...