More Sayings of the Desert Fathers
An English Translation and Notes

Tales and Sayings of fourth to seventh-century Sages are here translated into English for the first time from six original languages.

John Wortley (Edited and translated by), Samuel Rubenson (Preface by)

9781108457071, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2023

218 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.34 kg

Most of the Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegms) have survived in Greek and most of them are now available in English, almost 2500 in number. A further six hundred items in six languages have been available in French for some time, but often in second- and even third-hand translations. These have now been newly translated directly from the original languages by scholars skilled in those languages and are presented, alongside an Introduction and brief notes, to the English reader who wishes to know more of those men and some women who rejected 'the world' and went to live in the desert regions of Egypt and elsewhere in the fourth to seventh centuries.

Preface Samuel Rubenson
1. Introduction John Wortley
2. Sayings preserved in Greek John Wortley
3. Sayings preserved in Latin John Wortley
4. Sayings preserved in Syriac Robert Kitchen
5. Sayings preserved in Armenian Robert W. Thomson
6. Sayings preserved in Coptic Tim Vivian
7. Sayings preserved in Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Witold Witakowski.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Christianity [HRC], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], European history [HBJD]