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More sayings of the Desert Fathers : an English translation and notes / edited by John Wortley, University of Manitoba, Canada ; with preface by Samuel Rubenson, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Apophthegmata Patrum. Selections. English
- Language:
- Armenian
- Coptic
- English
- Ethiopic
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Syriac
- Subjects (All):
- Desert Fathers--Quotations.
- Desert Fathers.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Spiritual life.
- Spiritual life--Christianity.
- Monastic and religious life--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--Early works to 1800.
- Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Quotations.
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Most of the Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegms) have survived in Greek and most of them are now available in English, almost 2500 in number. A further six hundred items in six languages have been available in French for some time, but often in second- and even third-hand translations. These have now been newly translated directly from the original languages by scholars skilled in those languages and are presented, alongside an Introduction and brief notes, to the English reader who wishes to know more of those men and some women who rejected 'the world' and went to live in the desert regions of Egypt and elsewhere in the fourth to seventh centuries.
- Contents:
- Sayings preserved in Greek / John Wortley
- Sayings preserved in Latin / John Wortley
- Sayings preserved in Syriac / Robert Kitchen
- Sayings preserved in Armenian / Robert W. Thomson
- Sayings preserved in Coptic / Tim Vivian
- Sayings preserved in Ethiopic (Ge'ez) / Witold Witakowski.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108471084
- 1108471080
- OCLC:
- 1051776013
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