Overview

The sayings in this volume are taken from The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers, being histories of the Anchorites, Recluses, Monks, Cenobites and Ascetic Fathers of the deserts of Egypt between A.D. 250 and A.D. 400, compiled by Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria: Palladius, Bishop of Helenopolis: St. Jerome and others. These sayings were translated, out of the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge (1857 - 1934). In his translation of these early Christian texts Budge, who had been for thirty years Keeper of the Assyrian & Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, and was thus fully conversant with the complex intertwining of the ancient civilisations of the near East, opened a window on to a remarkable phenomenon that took place during the turbulent years of the declining Roman Empire. This phenomenon was the emergence of Christian monasticism and the development of formal spiritual disciplines as an integral part of Christian practice. In doing so he has provided a means for readers other than classical scholars to engage with an enigma that otherwise would remain forever obscure.

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Author:   Sir Ernest Wallis Budge ,  Allan Armstrong
Publisher:   Imagier Publishing
Imprint:   Imagier Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9780956878977

ISBN 10:   0956878970
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   01 June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PREFACE; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; The Supernatural Element in the Book Paradise; The Lives of the Egyptian Monks; Palladius as a Historian; Palladius His Life and Travels; Concerning the Book Paradise; BOOK I - On the Retreat from the World; Of Fasting and Abstinence and of Other Labours; Of Constant Prayer and Reading the Scriptures; Of Voluntary Poverty; Of Patient Endurance; Of Obedience; Of Scrupulous Watchfulness; Of Love and Charity, and of Welcoming Strangers; Concerning Humility; Concerning Fornication; On Acceptance and Repentance; Of Wonderful Works. BOOK II Questions and Answers on the Rule of Life; Questions by the Pupils; RECOMMENDED READING; INDEX. ILLUSTRATIONS - Fig. 1. (frontis) Map of Monastic Sites; Fig. 2. Evagrius of Pontus; Fig. 3. St. Palladius

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Author Ernest A. Wallis Budge, trans. Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857 - 1934) an English Egyptologist, who was for many years the keeper of the Egyptian Dept. of the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.

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