Uniform Title Apophthegmata Patrum. Selections. English & Greek Title The anonymous sayings of the Desert Fathers : a select edition and complete English translation / edited and translated by John Wortley

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 651 pages) Contents 880-01 Acknowledgements -- Note on the translation -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Text and translation -- Select bibliography -- Index 880-01/Grek Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Ἀποφθέγματα τῶν ἁγίων γερόντων -- Sayings of the holy elders -- CONCERNING IMPERIAL OFFICIALS -- CONCERNING THE HOLY HABIT OF MONKS -- CONCERNING ANCHORITES -- THAT WE SHOULD PURSUE HÊSYCHIAAND GRIEF FOR SIN -- CONCERNING TEMPERANCE [EGKRATEIA] -- ON THE BATTLE THAT RISES AGAINST US FROM PORNEIA -- ON DISCRETION -- THAT ONE MUST BE ON HIS GUARD AGAINSTJUDGING ANYBODY -- THAT NOTHING SHOULD BE DONE FOR OSTENTATIONAND THAT AVARICE SHOULD BE REPUDIATED -- ON THE NECESSITY OF BEING JOYFULLYCOMPASSIONATE AND HOSPITABLE -- ON HUMBLE-MINDEDNESS -- CONCERNING CHARITY -- ON THOSE WHO HAVE THE GIFT OF SECOND SIGHT -- CONCERNING PORNEIA -- Select bibliography -- Index Summary "Much of what is known of the earliest history of Christian monasticism is derived from the Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) of which three major collections survive. Until now only the 'Alphabetic' and the 'Systematic' collections have been available in English translation; which the present volume, the 'Anonymous' collection becomes available, not only in English, but with the first complete edition of the Greek text on facing pages. Although many of the contents of these collections refer to desert communities in north-west Egypt, the collectors may have been refugee monks settled in Palestine who sought to record in Greek an oral tradition of instruction originally in Coptic to secure in for future generations. The 'Alphabetic' collection and its appendix, the 'Anonymous', were both created towards AD 500 (the 'Systematic' somewhat later) but it was clear that further material was added to the 'Anonymous' well into the seventh century. Consequently, 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. But the spread and gradual evolution of monasticism as well illustrated here over a period extending to the Moslem conquest."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 644-645) and index Notes Text in Classical Greek with English translation Translated from the Ancient Greek Print version record Subject Desert Fathers -- Quotations Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Quotations, maxims, etc Monastic and religious life -- Quotations, maxims, etc Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800 Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800 RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. Desert Fathers Monastic and religious life Spiritual life -- Christianity Genre/Form Early works Quotations Form Electronic book Author Wortley, John, editor, translator ISBN 9781139031776 1139031775 9781107347380 1107347386 9781107344884 1107344883 1107233054 9781107233058 1107357004 9781107357006 1107343631 9781107343634 1107341132 9781107341135 1107348617 9781107348615

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