The Paradise of the Holy Fathers: Volume 2

by E.A. Wallis Budge (Translator)

The Paradise of the Fathers is the classic compilation of the lives and teachings of the early monastic saints. It has been said that for a monastic to achieve perfection there are only two books the Bible and the Paradise of the Fathers. This volume is translated from a Syriac manuscript discovered in 1888 by Dr. Ernest A. Wallis Budge.This is a revised and edited edition Volume Contains the Sayings of the Fathers and Questions and Answers about the monastic life.

Genres: Spirituality

364 pages, Paperback

Published January 9, 2009

About the author

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.