Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata by Jeff Bach

Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata

Jeff Bach

281 pages first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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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 relig...

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