Regulating sex in the Roman Empire : ideology, the Bible, and the early Christians / David Wheeler-Reed.

  • Wheeler-Reed, David
Date:
[2017]
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Publication/Creation

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2017]

Physical description

xxi, 177 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents

Augustus and the Roman Empire: the birth of an ideology -- Judaism: an ideology of procreationism -- New Testament: conflicting ideologies of the family -- Early church: the battle begins -- Then and now: reification.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-167) and indexes.

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    History of Medicine
    TPL.384
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  • 9780300227727
  • 0300227728