Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata

Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata

Book is in very good condition! There is only light wear. The pages are clean with no marks.

Winner of the prestigious 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and the 2005 Outstanding Publication award from the Communal Studies Association, this book was co-published with the respected Pennsylvania German Society/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. The Ephrata Cloister was a radical Pietist community founded by Georg Conrad Beissel (16911768), a charismatic mystic who had previously worked as a journeyman baker in Europe. In 1720, Beissel and a few companions sought a new life in William Penns land of religious freedom. Eventually, they settled on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in what is now Lancaster County and named their community "Ephrata," after the Hebrew name for the area surrounding Bethlehem. In the book "Voices of the Turtledoves," author Jeff Bach offers a fascinating exploration of the sacred world that thrived within Ephrata. Bach is the first scholar to extensively utilize Ephrata's manuscript resources and recent archaeological investigations in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the community. He argues that the key to comprehending all the various facets of life at Ephrata, including its architecture, manuscript art, and social organization, lies in understanding the religious philosophy of Beissel and his co-leaders.

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