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The Wisdom of the Pearlers

An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism

  • Paperback
  • 157 pages
  • Publisher: Cistercian Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • 14.6 x 21.4 x 1.5 cm

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The pearlers we meet in this book were early monks of Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), and Persia (Iran), They saw themselves as pearl-divers and pearl-merchants searching, through asceticism and prayer, for the precious pearls of mystical experience. Their quest led them into the wilderness, to a state of silent solitude in remote caves and hermitages. Working from Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum and the Vatican Library, and from the Greek monastery of Saint Catherine in the wilderness of Sinai and the Coptic monastery of the Syrians (Der es-Suriani) in the Egyptian desert, Brian E. Colless has produced a volume which draws modern readers into this little known world.
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  • Title

    The Wisdom of the Pearlers

  • Author

    Brian E. Colless

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cistercian Publications Inc.,U.S.

  • Published

    February 2008

  • Weight

    309g

  • Page Count

    157

  • Dimensions

    14.6 x 21.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780879073169

  • ISBN-10

    0879073160

  • Eden Code

    1168153

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