Desert Christians
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 21, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780195162233
First sentence: For most Romans, Egypt's deserts were the edge of the world, a vast and remote frontier land.
Description: In this book, William Harmless provides an accessible introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond. He introduces the reader to the major figures and literary texts, as well as offering an up-to-date survey of current questions and scholarship in the field. The text is enhanced by the inclusion of chronologies, maps, outlines, illustrations, and bibliographies. The book will not only serve as a text for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on early Christianity, the Desert Fathers, and Christian asceticism, but it should stimulate further research by making the fruits of recent scholarship more readily and widely available.