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 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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Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia: Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind 9781463206307, 1463206305

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

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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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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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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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Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city 9780520089112

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The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma: Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon (Volume 61) (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) 9780520304161, 9780520972988, 9780520304178, 0520304160

Andrew N. Palmer’s vivid translation of the Syriac Life of Barsauma opens a fascinating window onto the ancient Middle E

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