L'Epopée de Gilgames. Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir. Celtique The Origins of Monasticism in

The Origins of Monasticism in Wadi Natrum

shape original civilizations crossed by crises quite comparable to those that our societies are experiencing today: dissolving action of trade and consumption on traditional structures

was a place of worship and meeting for Coptic monks around the second half of the 5th century

bear witness to the most current findings and results which renew our knowledge of the multiple aspects of this period

L'Epopée de Gilgames. Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir. Celtique The Origins of Monasticism inSome thirty five centuries old and far predating the Iliad and the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the first known literary work whose breadth, strength, inspiration, height of vision and tone, the eminent and universal nature of its subject matter have earned, throughout the ancient Near East, a millennial celebrity and, in our judgment, the title of "epic." It tells the story of a great friendship, the source of superhuman successes, but