The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt
The desert hermit dominates the literary landscape of early Egyptian monasticism. A careful review of the sources, however, suggests that this dominance is to a large degree literary. While ascetics continued to ply their trade throughout Egypt, it was the withdrawal of some to the desert that suppl...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1993
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 1993, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-296 |
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