Truthfulness, Realism, Historicity: A Study in Late Antique Spiritual Literature

by PeterTurner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $170.70

  Were holy men historical figures or figments of the theological imagination? Did the biographies devoted to them reflect facts or only the ideological commitments of their authors? The author suggests a new approach to these problems through an examination of a range of spiritual narrative texts from the third to the sixth centuries AD.