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The Desert Fathers

First written 4th–5th century

About this book

Helen Waddell’s translations from the Latin Lives of the Fathers: lives of desert saints and a selection of the sayings of the abbas, with an introduction that made the desert tradition widely read in English.

The edition

Title
The Desert Fathers
Translated by
Helen Waddell
Publisher
Constable, London
Year
1936

Availability

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Citing this book

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Period

Late Antiquity200 CE to 700 CE

Subjects

Traditions

Concepts