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Title The "Anonymous" sayings of the Desert Fathers : a select edition and complete English translation / edited and translated by John Wortley.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Text in Classical Greek with English translation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremitic monasticism, a significant phenomenon within the early history of Christianity. The publication of this book finally ensures the availability of all three major collections which constitute the work, edited and translated into English. Richer in Tales than the 'Alphabetic' collection to which this is an appendix (both to be dated c. AD 500), the 'Anonymous' collection presented in this volume furnishes almost as much material for the study of the late antique world from which the monk sought to escape as it does for the monastic endeavour itself. More material continued to be added well into the seventh century and so the spread and gradual evolution of monasticism are illustrated here over a period of about two and a half centuries.
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Subject Desert Fathers -- Quotations.
Desert Fathers.
Genre/Form Quotations.
Subject Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Spiritual life -- Christianity.
Monastic and religious life -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Monastic and religious life.
Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
Quotations.
Added Author Wortley, John.
Added Title Apophthegmata Patrum. Selections. English & Greek.
Other Form: Print version: Apophthegmata Patrum. English & Greek. Selections. "Anonymous" sayings of the Desert Fathers. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9780521509886 (DLC) 2012029085 (OCoLC)801219587
ISBN 9781107341135 (electronic book)
1107341132 (electronic book)
9781139031776 (electronic book)
1139031775 (electronic book)
9780521509886
0521509882