Leif E. Vaage is Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis of Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Galilean Upstarts (1994). Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Union Theological Seminary. He has edited several books and is the author of Paul the WorldlyAscetic (1987).
Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush
Introduction PART ONE: (ALL ABOUT) JESUS Anthony J. Saldarini
Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew Mary Ann Tolbert
Asceticism and Mark's Gospel Stephen J. Patterson
Askesis and the Early Jewish Tradition Susan R. Garrett
Beloved Physician of the Soul?: Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice Abraham Smith
Full of Spirit and Wisdom: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1
8:1a) as a Man of Self
Mastery Turid Karlsen Seim
Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke
Acts David Rensberger
Asceticism and the Gospel of John John S. Kloppenborg
Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature and the Jesus Tradition PART TWO: PAUL (THE REAL THING) Ronald F. Hock
God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco
Roman Asceticism Elizabeth A. Castelli
Disciples of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul Robin Scroggs
Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians Robin Scroggs
The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism Richard Valantasis
Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter Neil Elliott
Asceticism Among the Weak and Strong in Romans 14
15 PART THREE: IMITATIO PAULI Jennifer Wright Knust
2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work Margaret Y. MacDonald
Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians Gail Corrington Streete
Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters Will Love
Where Is This World Headed?: Irony, World Renunciation and the Pauline Corpus PART FOUR: UN
PAUL Pamela Eisenbaum
The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews Alicia Batten
An Asceticism of Resistance in James L. Wm. Countryman
Asceticism or Household Morality?: 1 and 2 Peter and Jude L. Wm. Countryman
Asceticism in the Johannine Letters? William Klassen
The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John Alison Keith and Leif E. Vaage
Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush
Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism
