The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine (Volume 60) (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) 9780520304147, 9780520972957, 0520304144

The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine 9780520304147, 9780520972957, 0520304144

 Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism a

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The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine 0520304144, 9780520304147

Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism an

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The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine 0520304144, 9780520304147

 Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism a

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The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine 9780520972957

Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism an

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Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia: Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind 9781463237219

This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Ant

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The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium (Volume 62) (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) 9780520381582, 9780520381599, 0520381580

A portrait of history’s first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift givi

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Prayer and the Transformation of the Self in Early Christian Mystagogy (Late Antique History and Religion) 9789042936119, 9789042937772, 9042936118

This book is the second in a series on the mystagogy of the Church Fathers produced by the Netherlands Centre for Patris

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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt 9780520954922

Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. T

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Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Volume 27) (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) [1 ed.] 0520217098, 9780520217096

This study offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca. 352-431), a Ro

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