02351cam a22003014a 450000100090000000300090000900500170001800800410003501000170007602000350009304000240012804200080015204300120016008200190017210000300019124501010022126000620032230000490038450400510043350504690048452006720095365000200162565000560164565000680170185600830176985600910185285601060194313450543AU-EpEBC20130904154551.0040106s2004 enkab b 001 0 eng  a 2004000097 a0195162234 (pbk. : alk. paper) aDLCcDLCdDLCdNEMB apcc af-ua---00a271.009015/HAR1 aHarmless, William,d1953-10aDesert Christians :ban introduction to the literature of early monasticism /cWilliam Harmless. aOxford, UK ;aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2004. axxiv, 488 p. :billus., maps ; pbk ;c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and index. a Roman Egypt -- Patriarchs, councils, and controversies: 300-451 -- The life of Antony: text and context -- The life of Antony: themes and influence -- Pachomius -- The Apophthegmata Patrum: text and context -- The Apophthegmata Patrum: portraits -- Apophthegmata Patrum: themes -- The histories -- Evagrius Ponticus: ascetical theory -- Evagrius Ponticus: mystical theology -- John Cassian -- Monastic origins: perspectives, discoveries, and disrupted questions. aIn 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. 0aDesert Fathers. 0aChristian literature, EarlyxHistory and criticism. 0aMonastic and religious lifexHistoryyEarly church, ca. 30-600.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000097.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004000097-d.html423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2004000097-b.html