Desert Christians : an introduction to the literature of early monasticism / William Harmless.

In this introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond, the author introduces major figures and literary texts and provides an up-to-date survey of current questions and scholarship in the field.

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Main Author: Harmless, William, 1953-2014
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Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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245 1 0 |a Desert Christians :  |b an introduction to the literature of early monasticism /  |c William Harmless. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- A Note on the Notes and Bibliographies -- Part I. The World of Early Monasticism -- 1. Roman Egypt -- Alexandria -- The Gift of the Nile -- Early Egyptian Christianity -- Monasticism in Egypt: Leaders, Writers, and Texts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1.1. Papyrus: Women and Monasticism -- 2. Patriarchs, Councils, and Controversies: 300â€?451 -- Alexander, Arius, and the Council of Nicaea -- Athanasius -- Theophilus -- Cyril and the Council of Ephesus. 
505 8 |a Dioscorus and the Council of ChalcedonNotes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 2.1. The Creed of the Council of Nicaea (325) -- Appendix 2.2. Texts from the Council of Ephesus (431) -- Appendix 2.3. The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451) -- Part II. Antony and Pachomius -- 3. The Life of Antony: Text and Context -- The Wrath of 356 -- A Physician For Egypt -- Audience, Sources, and Genre -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 3.1. The Letters of Saint Antony -- Appendix 3.2. The Letters of Ammonas -- 4. The Life of Antony: Themes and Influence. 
505 8 |a Christ's Victory over DemonsGod Enfleshed, Humanity Deified -- The Politics of Orthodoxy -- Antony in the Latin West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 4.1. Jerome, The Life of Paul of Thebes -- Appendix 4.2. The Many Faces of Antony -- Appendix 4.3. Did Athanasius Really Write the Life of Antony? -- 5. Pachomius -- The Sources -- Early Career -- The Koinonia -- Later Career -- Theodore and Horsiesius -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 5.1. The Versions of the Life of Pachomius -- Appendix 5.2. The Letters of Pachomius. 
505 8 |a Appendix 5.3. The Letter of AmmonAppendix 5.4. The Testament of Horsiesius -- Appendix 5.5. Did the Nag Hammadi Library Belong to the Pachomians? -- Part III. The Desert Fathers -- 6. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Text and Context -- Abba Antony -- The Collections: Alphabetical and Systematic -- Abba, Give Me a Word -- Scetis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 6.1. The Many Languages of Desert Literature -- Appendix 6.2. Macarius the Egyptian, Letter to the Sons of God -- 7. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Portraits -- Abba Macarius the Egyptian. 
505 8 |a Abba John the LittleAbba Moses the Ethiopian -- Abba Poemen -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix 7.1. The Famous and Not-So-Famous of the Alphabetical Collection -- Appendix 7.2. The Virtues of Abba Macarius the Great -- Appendix 7.3. The Tree of Obedience -- Appendix 7.4. Zacharius of SakhÃØ, Encomium on the Life of John the Little -- 8. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Themes -- Hesychia -- The Manifestation of Thoughts -- The Demon of Lust -- Anger -- Blessed Are the Sorrowful -- Visions -- Scripture -- From Oral Word to Written Text -- Notes. 
520 8 |a In this introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond, the author introduces major figures and literary texts and provides an up-to-date survey of current questions and scholarship in the field. 
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650 0 |a Desert Fathers. 
650 0 |a Christian literature, Early  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Monastic and religious life  |x History  |y Early church, ca. 30-600. 
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655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635. 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 
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