The Corinthian body /
Dale B. Martin.
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1995.
- xviii, 330 p. ; pbk ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and indexes.
Hierarchy -- The Body in Greco-Roman Culture -- The Rhetoric of the Body Politic -- The Body's Economy -- Tongues of Angels in the Body of Christ -- The Resurrected Body -- Pollution -- The Body, Disease, and Pollution -- Sex, Food, and the Pollution of the Corinthian Body -- The Dangers of Desire -- Prophylactic Veils.
0300062052 (alk. paper)
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Bible.--Corinthians, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Human body--Religious aspects. Human body in literature. Civilization, Greco-Roman.