1. Introduction; 2. Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity; 3. Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism; 4. Christian asceticism before Origen; 5. Origen and his ascetic legacy; 6. Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics; 7. Conclusion.

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This book presents the first combined study of ancient ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately.

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Richard Finn OP is a Dominican friar and currently Regent of Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University, where he is a member of the Theology faculty and of the Classics faculty. He most recently published Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire in 2006.

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'… an invaluable introductory work … Finn successfully presents the multitude of practices and beliefs composing the larger ascetic traditions of the Greco-Roman world that Christian asceticism was constructed with and at times constructed against.' The Expository Times

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