Wallis Budge

The Paradise of the Holy Fathers: Volume 2 Wallis Budge

Publisher Marketing: 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 needed: 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 II: Contains the Sayings of the Fathers and Questions and Answers about the monastic life. Contributor Bio:  Budge, Wallis Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 - 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.