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The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation
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hardcover. First full edition and English translation of the 'Anonymous' collection of The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Num Pages: 658 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HBLA; HRCC2; HRCV; HRCX8. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1176.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
658
Condition
New
Number of Pages
658
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521509886
SKU
V9780521509886
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About Translate Edited An
John Wortley is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has published widely on the Byzantine era and has completed several translations to date, including Les Récits édifiants de Paul, évêque de Monembasie, et d'autres auteurs (1987), The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos, including the additional tales edited by Nissen and Mioni (1992), The Spiritually Beneficial ... Read more
Reviews for The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation
'Wortley has served up not only a translation but, as he calls it, a 'select edition' of the Anonymous Collection of the Apophthegmata Patrum for Cambridge University Press. It is a collection long awaited by scholars, and Wortley is certainly to be commended for, at last, making available both edition and translation of this important but heretofore understudied body of ... Read more