The Canons of Our Fathers
Author: Bentley Layton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0199582637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute.