Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides:

• extensive background and contextual notes
• significant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the systematic and anonymou...