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Christian Mysticism & Gnosticism,
Fine & Antiquarian
£90.00
The Paradise of the Holy Fathers - Being Histories of the Achorites, Recluses, Monks, Coenobites and Ascetic Fathers of the Deserts of Egypt between AD CCL and AD CCCC circiter, compiled by Athenasius Archbishop of Alexandria, Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis, Saint Jerome and others.
Translated from the Syriac with notes and introduction by Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Keeper of the Assyrian & Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum.
Published by Chatto & Windus (2 volumes), London, 1907
Condition: Good. No dust jacket, title on spine is faded. Name of previous owner inscribed on front flyleaf. Boards rather worn and dented on corners of volume
£95.00
This book aims to rehabilitate a figure largely forgotten by both the fields of Literature and of Esotericism and proposes a framework for analysing initiatory fiction and the experience of fictional initiation.
Condition: Perfectly New
£70.00
£95.00
This is a book about understanding an African religion that explores the coherence of the religion and the place of ritual in it, but which also looks at the way studying the religion of a very different society from our own throws up questions and helps to particularize the assumptions we make about religion and ideas
Published: E.J. Brill, Leiden 1997
Condition: Very good, dust jacket unclipped. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.