Download or read book The Canons of Our Fathers written by Bentley Layton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules. These rules were found quoted in the writings of the great Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute.