How Long to Read From Feasting To Fasting

How Long Does it Take to Read From Feasting To Fasting?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read From Feasting To Fasting by Veronika Grimm

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body. Winner of the 1995 Routledge Ancient History Prize

How long is From Feasting To Fasting?

From Feasting To Fasting by Veronika Grimm is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Feasting To Fasting Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read From Feasting To Fasting aloud.

What Reading Level is From Feasting To Fasting?

From Feasting To Fasting is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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