Max Hark remains the only full English edition of the Chronicon Ephratense and has brought wider accessibility to this unique source for over a century. Agrippa, now known to be Peter Miller, compiled and edited the manuscript, written by Brother Lamech (now thought to be Jacob Gaas), a member of the community who had since passed away. This chronicle, originally published in dialectal German in 1786 under the names “Lamech and Agrippa,” was a specimen of early bookmaking in Pennsylvania and is rich in local idioms and ecclesiastical language. It contributes to and enriches our knowledge of the unique social and religious conditions among early settlers of central and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Focusing on the biography of the influential leader and superintendent Conrad Beissel (1690–1768), Chronicon Ephratense explores life in the Ephrata community through intimate portraits of its inhabitants. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. This history recounts the formation of the Seventh Day Baptist congregation in Ephrata from the early Pietist movement in Germany to the founding of Ephrata and other communities in southeastern Pennsylvania in the 1730s. The Documentary Evidence for and Hagiographical Lore about John III Ducas Vatatzes Crusade. Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. Anonymi Chronicon Austriacum, Rerum Austriacarum Scriptores. Book of Knowledge Location 1: Petuaria Ruins, Eurvicscire The book is is underground, behind a breakable wooden floor, a destructible stone wall, and a moveable shelf, surrounded by poisonous gas.