The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th–Ō (Thêta–Ōméga) 99865 He traveled extensively throughout Egypt

He traveled extensively throughout Egypt - exploring its monasteries and accumulating biographies of the sixty-five patriarchs who had preceded him

the greatest Jewish mystic

discerning heresy by its fruits--namely

The Hebrew Christians of apostolic-era Palestine were tempted to fall back into Jewish ways because of persecution and a lack of understanding of the true uniqueness and significance of Christ

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th–Ō (Thêta–Ōméga) 99865 He traveled extensively throughout Egypt"Sugg. Donation" 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 vis the systematic and anonymous Apophthegmata reference notes to both