Icon of Saint Peter
Macedonia, Late Byzantine, third quarter of the 13th century
Tempora and gilt on aspen or cottonwood
Operating as usual
The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the world’s oldest continually operating monastery. The monastery holds an exceptional collection of more than 160 p…
Fleeing ISIS, an order of Dominican monks had to leave much behind. But when Father Najeeb Michaeel helped the Christian community escape, he took one thing with him: a collection of manuscripts.
Rina Avner is a former DO fellow:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4086
All of the information regarding the inscription will be presented in a conference open to the public on “Innovations in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Surroundings”, to be held this Thursday (23/10) on the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem A rare find of tremendous his…
As fighters from the 'Islamic State' group rampage across northern Syria and Iraq, a group of priests are racing against time to save what's left of the region's Christian...
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Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann. “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part VIII: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Library Company of Philadelphia.” Manuscripta 58, no 1 (2014): pp. 38–73. Abstract This article, part eight of the “Catalo…
http://world.greekreporter.com/2014/05/27/rare-seal-depicting-st-sabbas-discovered-in-jerusalem/
A rare seal dating back to the Crusades era has been discovered during excavations at the Monastery of St. Sabbas in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/05/syria-maaloula-damage-christian-sites.html#
According to a report by the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums for the Rif Damascus governorate, Christian sites in the historic town of Maaloula have suffered substantial damage.
An exciting new blog by Father Justin, the Librarian of St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai:
http://www.fatherjustinsblog.info/
Monastery Guest HouseApril 27, 2014Father Justin1 CommentThe central courtyardGuest rooms in the morning sunlightBeyond, the foothills of Mount SinaiThe dining hallAncient olive trees opposite the new buildings
The saga continues
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/fresh-doubts-raised-about-papyrus-scrap-known-as-gospel-of-jesuss-wife.html?hp
A relic has provoked fascination and fury it was unveiled nearly two years ago by an eminent historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.
Unfortunately, one needs a subscription to read this in its entirety, but it suggests that people are speaking out against the false charges which have been leveled at the monastery.
http://www.mcndirect.com/showsubject.aspx?id=53869
MCNdirect.com to provide timely and reliable news, situation reports and insightful analyses on Copts and Christian minorities in the Middle East
Archaeologists have used Cold War spy-satellite photos to uncover thousands of unsuspected archaeological sites.
Two photos from Pascha at the Sinai this year. Taken by Father Justin. Νυνὶ δὲ Χριστὸς ἐγήγερται ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων....Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη!
Byzantine Studies Symposium, April 25–27, 2014, Symposiarchs: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University and Margaret Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/98907.aspx
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(H/T Deb Stewart)
http://manuscriptsonmicrofilm.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/latin-in-greek-and-greek-in-latin-some-bilingual-and-transliterated-texts-in-the-sinai-collection/
The Manuscripts on Microfilms blog is back after a two-year hiatus! In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing some of my finds from the Sinai collection, which I’ve been working on this win...
“Greek scholars agree in emphasizing the role played by engravers active in [Lwow] in the late seventeenth century,” writes Waldemar Deluga. “Their work had a tremendous impact on changes in the Orthodox religious iconography of later centuries. It was in one of the biggest towns of the old Polish L...
http://hummusforthought.com/2014/02/11/what-did-palestine-look-like-in-1896/
A film footage of Palestine in 1896 was recently published online thanks to Lobster Films. It shows Palestinians of all faiths - Christians, Jews and Muslims - living side by side, and praying side...
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-first-photographs-ever-taken-jerusalem-180949473/
Since 1844, millions of photographs have probably been taken of Jerusalem. But these blurry snaps are the very first.
Experts sort painstakingly through the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, devastated by a truck bomb attack last month at police headquarters across the street.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/syria-heritage-in-ruins-before-and-after-pictures/print
The war in Syria has claimed more than 130,000 lives and, as these images reveal, it is also laying waste to its historic buildings and Unesco-listed sites, writes Martin Chulov
http://maryjahariscenter.org/events/the-sinai-palimpsest-project-piercing-the-mists-of-time/
Sinai Greek New Finds Majuscule 2, foli 24 (detail). The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt. © The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks holds thirteen (13) of the Byzantine Institute's motion picture films: one of the Red Sea Monasteries, eleven (11) of the Hagia Sophia, and another one of the Kariye Camii. This exhibit aims to reveal the context of these films by...
http://news.yahoo.com/important-library-north-lebanon-torched-security-source-234716972.html
Tripoli (Lebanon) (AFP) - A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's majority Sunni city of Tripoli was torched late Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said. "Unknown assailants torched the Saeh Library in Tripoli, destroying two thirds of some…
Thirty-three historic artifacts in the garden of the Hagia Sophia have been moved to the Trabzon Museum after the structure was turned into a mosque again
The Prince of Wales told a reception for Middle East Christians at Clarence House in London that people with a 'vested interest' were destroying the relationship between the two religions.
The trailer has now been released for the new movie, Katherine of Alexandria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwiIkRtkCtc
It is commonly believed that Katherine was a Christian maiden of Alexandria in Egypt, possessing beauty, brains and noble birth. Redwood's film portrays Kath...
A Byzantine resources page by Yannis Stouraitis at Vienna
http://byzideo.blogspot.co.at/
A blog for the promotion of research and scholarly dialogue on ideology and identity in Byzantine, Late Antique and Medieval Studies
The international community must insist that Christians remain in the Middle East, not just as minorities, but as citizens with full equality under the law
December 8 (last Sunday) was the Feast Day of St Catherine. These photographs of the celebration of her feast at the St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai (where her relics are) were passed along to us by Father Justin we thought they might be of interest to the wider Byzantine community.
Snow has fallen at St Catherine's today. Two pictures from Father Justin.
The discovery of the first-ever example of Judeo-Syriac
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/fotm/august-2013/index.html
August 2013’s Fragment of the Month uncovers a unique find, a medical text in Judaeo-Syriac.
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