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Desert Fathers and desert literature

Jennifer L. Hevelone‐Harper

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Abstract Beginning in the late third centuryCE, some some Christians withdrew from city and village life to practice asceticism in the desert and at the edges of settled land in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.

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Abstract Beginning in the late third centuryCE, some some Christians withdrew from city and village life to practice asceticism in the desert and at the edges of settled land in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.

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Abstract Beginning in the late third centuryCE, some some Christians withdrew from city and village life to practice asceticism in the desert and at the edges of settled land in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.

Key concepts: Desert (philosophy), Palestine, Asceticism, Geography, Archaeology, Ancient history, History, Political science

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