Abandoned to lust sexual slander and ancient Christianity / [electronic resource] :
Jennifer Wright Knust.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
- xviii, 279 p.
- Gender, theory, and religion .
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-270) and index.
Introduction: Who's on top? : sex talk, power, and resistance -- Sexual slander and ancient invective -- Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God -- Sexual vice and Christian Apologia -- The false teachers of the end time -- Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600. Libel and slander--Religious aspects--Christianity--History. Sex--Rome. Libel and slander--Rome.