Abstract
Abstract Tensions between male and female, between settled and wander ing life, between members of the clergy and desert-dwellers, were not the only ones the Desert Fathers had to come to terms with. In time tensions also arose between the anchorite or semi anchorite life per se and yet another organizational model, which emerged at the same time as the deserts of Lower Egypt began to be populated. This model originated in Upper Egypt, in the Thebaid, and was in principle based on the same premises as the ascetic life represented by Antony and Amoun, but it carried the aspects of hospitality, charity, and mutual dependence to their logical conclusion: Pachomian cenobitism.
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