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The book is a study of very ancient Christian monasticism. It contains the full translation of a newly discovered set of very ancient monastic rules, together with the original text in Coptic. They paint an amazingly detailed picture of the way that monks and nuns lived in Christian Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries AD.

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9780199582631

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This work presents a tremendous advance in the history of monasticism and the history of Christianity by one of the most learned scholars of Shenoute. --Marginalia

the book is an extremely valuable addition to scholarship on Coptic Christianity in late antiquity. H. Clifton Ward, Ancient Christians Studies

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Bentley Layton was educated at Harvard University and taught for five years in Jerusalem at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise. He worked in Cairo with UNESCO Technical Subcommittee to reconstruct the Coptic Gnostic manuscripts of Nag Hammadi and then taught at Yale University, where he was appointed to the Goff Professorship of Religious Studies. He is the recipient of fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim Foundation and past President of the International Association of Coptic Studies.

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