Voices of the Turtledoves : : The Sacred World of Ephrata / / Jeff Bach.

The Ephreta Cloister was a community of radical Pietist Germans founded by Georg Conrad Beissel, a charismatic mystic. In 1720 he and a few friends sought a new life in William Penn's land of religious freedom. This work looks at the sacred world that flourished at Ephreta.

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Superior document:Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2003.
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 282 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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