The Encroaching Desert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11640479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathilde Van Dijk (0000-0002-0821-2038, Institute of Religious Studies, corresponding author), Jitse H F Dijkstra, Jitse Dijkstra |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History and Religious Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1871-241X • E-ISSN: 1871-2428 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187124106778787097 |
| OpenAlex | W1969754887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In 1993, James Goehring published an important article entided 'The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt,'1 in which he unravels the presented by the early Christian sources that in Late Antiquity the Egyptian was filled with monks. Beginning with the metaphorical dichotomy between and city, Goehring shows that the desert myth was a literary construct in which holy men withdrew to the in massive numbers to renounce the world. The itself thus became
Ancient history · Archaeology · Asceticism · Church History · Construct (python library · Desert (philosophy · Early Christianity · Late Antiquity · Medieval history · Mythology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |