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020			_a9781139031776 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aBR57 _b.A5713 2013
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245	0	4	_aThe Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers : _bA Select Edition and Complete English Translation / _cedited and translated by John Wortley.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (658 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe 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.
700	1		_aWortley, John, _eeditor, _etranslator.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521509886
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031776
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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