The Encroaching Desert
Mathilde van Dijk|Jitse H. F. Dijkstra
In 1993, James Goehring published an important article entided 'The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt,'1 which he unravels the presented by early sources that Late Antiquity Egyptian was filled with monks. Beginning metaphorical dichotomy between city, shows desert myth a literary construct holy men withdrew to massive numbers renounce world. The itself thus became
Church History and Religious Culture