Paradise of the Fathers, Book of
author: Herman G. B. Teule
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Paradise of the Fathers, Book of

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Paradise-of-the-Fathers-Book-of http://syriaca.org/bibl/423 414 Book of Paradise of the Fathers [work][^1]

[^1: The title given, mostly in the Syriac tradition, to a compilation consisting of a collection of stories about monks and solitaries (including Palladius’s ‘Historia Lausiaca’, but also material borrowed from Hieronymus) and a collection of ‘Sayings of the Egyptian Fathers’ (Apophthegmata).]

The title given, mostly in the Syriac tradition, to a compilation consisting of a collection of stories about monks and solitaries (including Palladius ’s ‘Historia Lausiaca’, but also material borrowed from Hieronymus) and a collection of ‘Sayings of the Egyptian Fathers’ (Apophthegmata). In the Syriac tradition the whole work is ascribed to Palladius (d. around 430). The compilation was made by the E.-Syr. monk ʿEnanishoʿ and became popular not only in the E.-Syr. ascetical tradition ( Toma of Marga gives an elaborate description in his ‘Book of Governors’), but also among W.-Syr. ascetics, who could read important parts of the Paradise (mainly the apophtegmata) in a great many ascetical anthologies.

Sources

P. Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, vol. 7 (1897). (Syr.; s.v. Paradisus Patrum)
E. A. W. Budge, The Paradise of the Holy Fathers (2 vols.; 1907; 2nd ed. 1934). (ET)
J.-M. Sauget, Une traduction arabe de la collection d’Apophthegmata patrum de ʿEnānīšōʿ (CSCO 495; 1987).

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