An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
An Introduction to the Desert Fathers Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Sc…
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An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Sc t ), it asks how the monks prayed, ate, drank and slept, as well as how they discharged their obligations both to earn their own living by handiwork and to exercise hospitality. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
Written in straightforward language, the book is accessible to all students and scholars, and anyone with a general interest in this important It also discusses the monks' degree of literacy, as well as women in the desert and Pachomius and his monasteries in Upper Egypt.
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