Asceticism; Saints; Roman Empire; Hermits; Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6; Pharaohs; Arab Conquest of Egypt; Pachomian monasticism; Persecution; Monks; Monasteries; Philosophers; Cenobites; Hagiography; Demons
Monks; Monasteries; Angels; Scetis; Miracles; History of the Patriarchs; Arabic literature; Greek language; Syriac language; Synaxarion; Ethiopic language
Nag Hammadi library; Nag Hammadi codices; Codex; Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha texts; Monasteries; Gnosticism; Platonism; Stoics; Clement, of Alexandria, Saint, ca. 150-ca. 215; Origen; Hellenism; Orthodoxy