Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (Transformation of the Classical Heritage , No 13)
Contributors: Sebastian P. Brock (Translator); Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Translator)
Edition: Updated edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780520213661
Subjects: Early Church; Saints & hagiography; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; Church History; Religion - Church History; Religion; Middle East; Christianity - History - General; History; Religion / General
First sentence: The first piece, on the fall from ascetic life and the subsequent repentance of Mary, niece of the recluse Abraham of Qidun (a village near Edessa), is an extract from the Life of this mid-fourth-century hermit.