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The death registers of the Ephrata Cloister

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9620
Date of Publication
1996
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV, v. 21.
Responsibility
translations by Jeff Bach ; index by Clarence E. Spohn.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, PA
Publisher
The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley,
Date of Publication
1996
Physical Description
[8], 64 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Issued as: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, 21 (1996).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Death register from "Brother Kenan's notebook" -- Anonymous death register -- Death register from "Die Rose".
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister - Sources.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Author
Bach, Jeff,
Spohn, Clarence E.
Additional Title
Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV, v. 21.
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Room(s) for more: a communal dwelling or family home at Ephrata

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20548
Author
Bach, Jeff.
Responsibility
by Jeff Bach and Nick Siegert.
Author
Bach, Jeff.
Physical Description
51-78 pgs.
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister
Religious institutions - Pennsylvania
Germans - Pennsylvania - Ephrata - History.
Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania
Contained In
In: American Communal Societies Quarterly v. 10, nos. 1 & 2, Jan-Apr. 2016.Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County286.3 B118a
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Voices of the turtledoves : the sacred world of Ephrata

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14266
Author
Bach, Jeff,
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
286.3 B118
Responsibility
Jeff Bach.
ISBN
0271022507 (alk. paper)
Author
Bach, Jeff,
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
2003.
Physical Description
xix, 282 p. : ill., 24 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 3
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The religious thought of Ephrata : Conrad Beissel -- 2. The religious thought of Ephrata : other writers -- 3. "Holy church practices" : ritual at Ephrata -- 4. Manly virgins and virginal men : gender at Ephrata -- 5. "God's holy point of rest" : Ephrata's mystical language in space and time -- 6. Roses in the wilderness : Ephrata's manuscript art -- 7. "Heavenly magic" : hidden knowledge at Ephrata.
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister.
Mysticism - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
286.3 B118
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