History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai
- Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2010
- 346p
- Translated Texts for Historians; 201000ENGGPS5 .
includes index and biblioraphy
The formation and history of third palestine ..............4 The christian development of the Sinai Peninsula .........17 Assessing the saracen menace on the Sinai Frontier ........39 The sinai Martyr Tradition ............51 Dath and the Mountain ..............63 1. Major Sinai Narratives: Introductions, translations, and Commentaries Pseudo-nilus narrations concerning the slaughter of the monks of sinai and the capativity of Theodulus ......73 A ninth-century excerpt from ps-nilus, narrations, trans, sebastian brock .......136 Nilus of Ancyra Letter to heliodorus ..............138 Ammonius, reports concerning the slaughter of the Monks of Sinai and Rhithou...........141 Anastasius of Sinai, collection I : Tales of the sinai Fathers selections from collections II .............172