| Title: | Untersuchungen zur Nilus dem Asketen |
| Series: | Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature 43 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| By Karl Heussi |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61719-339-2 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publication Date: | 6/2010 |
| From the 1917 edition |
| Language: | German |
| Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in |
| Pages: | 176 |
Nilus the Ascetic is one of the earliest sources of Christian monasticism; Karl Heussi here discusses his extensive correspondence, and the narrative attributed to him on the monks of Sinai. After considering the later evidence on Nilus, he concludes that the piece on Sinai is too romantic to be of a piece with the letters, and therefore that Nilus is not (as the traditional narrative would have him be) a courtier who became a monk in Egypt, but a student of John Chrystostom who organized a monastery in Galatia.
Table of Contents
- Vorwort (page 5)
- Kapitel I.Die auberen Zeugen (page 15)
- Kapitel II.Die Briefsammlung (page 35)
- Kapitel III.Die Erzahlung vom uberfall der monche am sinai (page 127)
- Anhang (page 164)
- Register.I.Personen1 und Sachen (page 171)
