Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity

Jennifer Knust

December, 2005
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13662-4
$48.50 / £28.50

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Who’s on Top? Sex Talk, Power, and Resistance

1. Sexual Slander and Ancient Invective

2. Paul, the Slaves of Desire, and the Saints of God

3. Sexual Vice and Christian Apologia

4. The False Teachers of the End Time

5. Illicit Sex, Wicked Desire, and the Demonized Heretic

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Christianity

Series

• Gender, Theory, and Religion

About the Author

Jennifer Knust is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Boston University School of Theology.

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