The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and GaulJournal of Early Christian StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XTYM9GNK/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.DavidBrakkeThe Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaulhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XTYM9GNKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XTYM9GNKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XTYM9GNKJournal of Early Christian Studies3:41995419-460The question of whether men who have had a nocturnal emission should commune or not provided a rare occasion for early Christian authors to use the male—rather than female—body to reflect on the purity of the individual Christian and the identity of the church. Examination of evidence from Syria, Egypt, and Gaul, dating to the third through fifth centuries, reveals that, as the church grew, the anxieties that male leaders expressed about emissions became increasingly internalized, both in social and personal terms. Changing modes of self-definition produced increasingly meticulous modes of problematization in Christian analyses of wet dreams, but not necessarily more or less stringent teachings on the subject.
Brakke, David. “The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaul.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 3:4 (1995): 419–60.
David Brakke, The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaul,Journal of Early Christian Studies 3:4 (1995): 419–60.Apostolic ConstitutionsDidascaliaIII CEIV CEasceticismbodyholinesspuritysexuality