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Johann Conrad Beissel and the Ephrata Community Mystical and Historical Texts

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Pages:410
ISBN:0-88946-658-0
978-0-88946-658-6
Price:$259.95
Explores one of the more radical and eclectic manifestations of the subterranean world of pietism in the Middle Colonies, the movement centered in Pennsylvania's Ephrata Community, a semi-monastic colony organized in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel.

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"Historians will appreciate Erb's introduction and especially his translation of The Ephrata Chronicle, a contemporary account of the community. . . . [L]ibraries will find it an important addition to their collections." - Religious Studies Review