The New Discoveries in St. Catherine's Monastery
Author | : James H. Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James H. Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janet Soskice |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-08-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307272346 |
Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without university degrees or formal language training, the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac, the language that Jesus spoke. In an era when most Westerners—male or female—feared to tread in the Middle East, they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels, unscrupulous dragomen, and suspicious monks to become unsung heroines in the continuing effort to discover the Bible as originally written.
Author | : Saint John (Climacus) |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809123308 |
John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church.
Author | : Constantine Tischendorf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2016-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781585093670 |
A first-hand account of this amazing discovery, followed by an assessment of its historical importance. While visiting St. Catherine's monastery in the Sinai, the author found the oldest complete New Testament bible, with most of the Old Testament as well. Also includes The Mount Sinai Manuscript of the Bible.
Author | : Malka Z. Simkovich |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0827614284 |
For those unfamiliar with the many divisions within Judaism at that time or with Jewish life in other parts of the Roman Empire, this book offers an excellent introduction to a little-studied time period. Readers of Jewish history will definitely want to add this work to their shelves.--Rabbi Rachel Esserman, Reporter Exploring the world of the Second Temple period (539 BCE-70 CE), in particular the vastly diverse stories, commentaries, and other documents written by Jews during the last three centuries of this period, Malka Z. Simkovich takes us to Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, to the Jewish sectarians and the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus, to the Cairo genizah, and to the ancient caves that kept the secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As she recounts Jewish history during this vibrant, formative era, Simkovich analyzes some of the period's most important works for both familiar and possible meanings. This volume interweaves past and present in four parts. Part 1 tells modern stories of discovery of Second Temple literature. Part 2 describes the Jewish communities that flourished both in the land of Israel and in the Diaspora. Part 3 explores the lives, worldviews, and significant writings of Second Temple authors. Part 4 examines how authors of the time introduced novel, rewritten, and expanded versions of Bible stories in hopes of imparting messages to the people. Simkovich's popular style will engage readers in understanding the sometimes surprisingly creative ways Jews at this time chose to practice their religion and interpret its scriptures in light of a cultural setting so unlike that of their Israelite forefathers. Like many modern Jews today, they made an ancient religion meaningful in an ever-changing world.
Author | : Helen C. Evans |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Icons, Byzantine |
ISBN | : 1588391094 |
"In this book the Monastery and its buildings are presented in many newly commissioned color photographs: included are views of the richly decorated sanctuary of the sixth-century church as well as images of the world's most outstanding collection of icons. The Introduction by His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai and the essay on the Holy Monastery by Helen C. Evans augment the powerful and dramatic photographs of the site, some of them from the Monastery's archives"--Jacket.
Author | : Corinna Rossi |
Publisher | : White Star Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Dating back to 324 AD, when a community of monks requested a chapel to be built on the spot where they believed the Burning Bush had stood, the monastery of St. Catherine has remained an oasis of peace for centuries. Today, it is a place of international pilgrimage, housing the most extensive collection of Greek Orthodox icons in the world. Granted unprecedented access to this holy site, photographer Araldo De Luca and author Corinna Rossi take readers inside the walls of this sacred place, revealing its peerless artistic, historical, and religious legacy through superb photographs and an authoritative text that incorporates the most recent research and discoveries. Presented in a handsome slipcase and featuring a preface by Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, this is a book to be cherished by art lovers and anyone interested in our historical and religious heritage.
Author | : Daniel I. Block |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2020-07-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725252082 |
Write That They May Read is a collection of essays written in honor of our mentor, friend, and fellow scholar, Professor Alan R. Millard. Respectful of his contribution to our understanding of writing and literacy in the ancient biblical world, all the essays deal with some aspect of this issue, ranging in scope from archeological artifacts that need to be ""read,"" to early evidence of writing in Israel's world, to the significance of reading and writing in the Bible, including God's own literacy, to the production of books in the ancient world, and the significance of metaphorical branding of God's people with his name. The contributors are distributed among Professor Millard's peers and colleagues in a variety of institutions, his own students, and students of his students. They represent a variety of disciplines including biblical archeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic texts, and the literature of the Bible, and reside in North America, Japan, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Germany.
Author | : Hector Avalos |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161592034X |
In this radical critique of his own academic specialty, biblical scholar Hector Avalos urges his colleagues to concentrate on educating the broader society to recognize the irrelevance and even violent effects of the Bible in modern life.
Author | : Randall Price |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781565074545 |
Discover new technology that helps translators with previously unreadable Scroll fragments, supposedly "secret" scrolls in hiding, and the furious debate about who rightfully owns the Scrolls. Includes never before-published photographs.