Winner, 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding
Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Winner, 2005 Outstanding Publication, Communal Studies
Association
Co-published with the Pennsylvania German Society/Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht
The Ephrata Cloister was a community of radical Pietists founded
by Georg Conrad Beissel (1691-1768), a charismatic mystic who had
been a journeyman baker in Europe. In 1720 he and a few companions
sought a new life in William Penn's land of religious freedom,
eventually settling on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in what is
now Lancaster County. They called their community "Ephrata," after
the Hebrew name for the area around Bethlehem. Voices of the
Turtledoves is a fascinating look at the sacred world that
flourished at Ephrata.
In Voices of the Turtledoves, Jeff Bach is the first to draw
extensively on Ephrata's manuscript resources and on recent
archaeological investigations to present an overarching look at the
community. He concludes that the key to understanding all the
various aspects of life at Ephrata--its architecture, manuscript
art, and social organization--is the religious thought of Beissel
and his co-leaders.
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