TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vivian,Tim
AU  - Athanassakis,Apostolos N.
AU  - Mikhail,Maged S.A.
AU  - Pearson,Birger A.
TI  - Words to live by: journeys in ancient and modern Egyptian monasticism 
SN  - 0879076577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BR190 .V58 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Kalamazoo, Mich.
PB  - Cistercian Publications
KW  - Vivian, Tim
KW  - Monastic and religious life
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Sources
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Map on p. [2] and [3] of cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-416) and index; Words to live by -- The monasteries of the Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt : a monastic and personal journey -- A journey to the interior : the monasteries of Saint Antony and Saint Paul by the Red Sea -- The good God, the Holy Power, and the Paraclete : ad filios Dei (to the sons of God) by Saint Macarius the Great -- Saint Paul of Tamma and the life of the cell -- The life of Paul of Tamma -- Four short works -- On the cell -- Monks, middle Egypt, and Metanoia : the life of Apa Phib -- Humility and resistance in late antique Egypt : the life of Longinus -- The ascetic discourse of Stephen of Thebes -- Holy men and businessmen : monks as intercessors in fourth-century Egypt
N2  - "Personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient monastic texts"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005019611.html
ER  -