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THE BIBLE AND CULTURAL STUDIES THE CARE OF TH...

This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called
the care of the self. This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by
illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have
been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like
Clement  Ignatius  and Polycarp represented self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light
an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi
and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes
the false binary of thinking in terms of orthodoxy versus heresy Gnosticism.

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