出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Even though the first commandment in the Bible, «Be fruitful and multiply» (Gen. 1:28), countered the development of sexual asceticism in early Judaism, yet there is clear evidence of persons and groups choosing voluntary celibacy as a Jewish way of life. The evidence concerning the Essenes, the Therapeutae , Banus, Shim'on ben Azzai, John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth is discussed in this article as are the consequences for the rise of celibacy in early Christianity.
