What does it mean to be humble like Christ? In this book, Bernadette McNary-Zak explores various concepts of Christian humility in late antiquity. To help the reader deepen their understanding of Christian humility, McNary-Zak takes a close look at some of the ways humility has operated as a relational value in specific contexts involving ascetic women. Each chapter explores a particular type of humility: theological, social, intellectual, and mutual humility. In view of how humility operates in the written narratives of these early Christian women, the author shows how, at the very margins of a male-dominated culture, the ascetic woman undertook a form of renunciation of self that enabled her to function as a symbol of Christian humility for females and males alike. In this way, a life lived as both affirmative of biblical precedent and subversive of societal norms becomes a life lived in deliberate aspiration toward an unrealized eschatology.