Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection by

Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

with Benedicta Ward (Translator)

269 pages • paperback

2 editions

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. TheirSayings were collected, in this case in ...

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