Desert Ascetics of Egypt

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Brandeis University) Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L. (Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Darlene L Brooks Hedstrom

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Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders of their urban centres in the Nile Valley. Regarded as angels and warriors, the wisdom of the Desert Ascetics formed part of the oral and literary tradition of wonder-working saints whose commitment to asceticism was legendary and inspirational. This book grounds the mythologized stories of Desert Ascetics in the materiality of the desert, demonstrating the closeness of the desert, the connections between non-monastic and monastic communities, and the exciting insights into lived monasticism through the archaeology of monasticism in Egypt.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-30
Mått114 x 178 x 10 mm
Vikt150 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePast Imperfect
Antal sidor140
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641891677

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Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Desert Ascetics as Early Christian CelebritiesChapter 3: What Did the Desert Ascetics Teach and How Did They Live?Chapter 4: The Problem of a Saintly Reputation: Antony and AthanasiusChapter 5: Other Desert Ascetics and Other SourcesChapter 6: Grounding the Desert Ascetics in ArchaeologyChapter 7: Archaeology of Place: Where Desert Ascetics LivedChapter 8: Monastic Archaeology and Monastic ThingsChapter 9: Conclusion: Reassembling the History of Desert Ascetics

The real gift of Hedstrom’s book ... comes when she moves away from the familiar stories that general readers can access readily enough. After asking how reliable the stories are – “And is reliability necessary?” – she sets out to describe “the actual lived experience of desert life.” She does this by generous use of other literary and documentary sources, and archaeology. The picture she paints is fascinating, and rather than ruining or underminingthe power of the sayings and stories, she makes the lives of these men and women even more admirable.