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512 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195162233
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 17 June 2004
Description
In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley ...
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512 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195162233
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 17 June 2004
Description
In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley ...