Notes on Genesis and Exodus: Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy 2

Volume 2 of Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy, a series of Merton's teaching notes published by Wipf and Stock in 2021. As master of novices at Gethsemani from 1955 to 1965, Merton was responsible for the formation of young men preparing for monastic profession, and he wrote out and taught a broad series of courses on the monastic tradition, which he called an initiation into that tradition. This volume prints his notes on the books of Genesis and Exodus.