{"product_id":"2940013872080","title":"Palladius: The Lausiac History - Enhanced (Illustrated)","description":"This wonderful book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section, and the Christian Image Collection, a myriad of beautiful colorful religious images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lausiac History (Historia Lausiaca) is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers (early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert) written in 419-420 by Palladius of Galatia, at the request of Lausus, chamberlain at the court of the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book was popular among monks all over the East, who appear to have added to it considerably in transcribing it. The first edition was a Latin version by Gentian Hervetus. A shorter Greek text was published by Johannes Meursius (Leyden, 1616), and a longer one by Fronton du Duc, , and a still more complete one by J. Cotelerius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis longer version contains the text of Rufinus. Butler, Preuschen, and others think that the shorter text (of Meursius) is Palladius's authentic work, the longer version being interpolated. Amélineau holds that the longer text is all Palladius's work, and that the first thirty-seven chapters (about the monks of Lower Egypt) are mainly an account of what the author saw and heard, though even here he has also used documents. But he thinks the second part (about Upper Egypt) is merely a compilation from a Coptic or Greek document which Rufinus also used; so that Palladius's visit to Upper Egypt must be a literary fiction. But the shorter text itself exists in various forms. A Syrian monk, Anan-Isho, living in the sixth-seventh centuries in Mesopotamia, translated the \"Lausiac History\" into Syriac with further interpolations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt one time the \"Lausiac History\" was considered a compilation of imaginary legends. Roman Catholic scholars at the beginning of the twentieth century argued that it was also a serious source on Egyptian monaticism, in between the miracles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou can buy other wonderful religious books from Wyatt North and Bieber Publishing! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy.","brand":"Bieber Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083310842096,"sku":"2940013872080","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013872080_p0.jpg?v=1763596414","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013872080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}