History and Hagiography From the Late antique Sinai

by Caner, Daniel F.; Brock, Sebastian; Price, Richard M.; Van Bladel, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781846312168
• ISBN10: 1846312167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This volume collects a number of important texts that have never before been translated into a modern language, each of which describes the late antique conditions and experiences on the Sinai peninsula. The texts in translation include Pseudo-Nilus'sNarrationes, Nilus of Ancyrus'sEpistula, and fifty tales attributed to Anastasius of Sinai. All remain important for late antique history, literature, and religion, as well as for their special focus on developments in the Sinai region prior to the Islamic period.

Author Biography

Daniel F. Caner is associate professor of history and classics at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction
The Formation and History of Third Palestine	p. 4
The Christian Development of the Sinai Peninsula	p. 17
Assessing the Saracen Menace on the Sinai Frontier	p. 39
The Sinai Martyr Tradition	p. 51
Death and the Mountain	p. 63
Major Sinai Narratives: Introductions, Translations, and Commentaries
Pseudo-Nilus, Narrations (Narrationes), Concerning the Slaughter of the Monks of Sinai and the Captivity of Theodulus	p. 73
A Ninth-Century Excerpt from Ps.-Nilus, Narrations, trans.	p. 136
Nilus of Ancyra, Letter to Heliodorus (Ep. IV.62)	p. 138
Ammonius, Report (Relatio), Concerning the Slaughter of the Monks of Sinai and Rhaithou	p. 141
Anastasius of Sinai, Collection I: Tales of the Sinai Fathers (Di&ebar;g&ebar;mata paterika); selections from Collection II: Edifying Tales (Die&ebar;g&ebar;mata st&ebar;riktika)	p. 172
Sinai Pilgrimage Accounts and Travel Documents
Ephraim the Syrian, Hymns 19 and 20, trans.	p. 203
Egeria, Travelogue (Itinerarium) I-IX, with abridgements by Peter the Deacon	p. 211
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Religious History (Historia religiosa) II.13, VI.7-13	p. 232
Emperor Marcian, Letter to Bishop Macarius and the Monks of Sinai, trans.	p. 237
Jacob of Serug, Letter VII (To the Monks of Sinai), trans.	p. 242
Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (Topographica Christiana) V, selections	p. 246
Piacenza Pilgrim, Travelogue (Itinerarium) 33-42	p. 252
Gregory the Great, Letters IV.44 (To Rusticiana) and XI.2 (To John, Abbot of Mount Sina)	p. 263
Nessana Papyri, selections:	p. 266
P.Colt 89 (Account of a Trading Company, c. 6th-7th century)
P.Colt 72 (Order from the Governor for a Guide, c. March 684)
P.Colt 73 (Order from the Governor for a Guide, c. December 683)
Sinai Defences
Procopius of Caesarea, On Buildings (De Aedificiis) V.viii.1-9	p. 273
Eutychius (Sa'&Ibar;d ibn Batr&ibar;q) of Alexandria, Annals (Annales Ecclesiastici), selections, trans.	p. 277
Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia AM 6123, 6124 (630/1, 631/2 CE)	p. 283
Maps and Plans	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 295
Index	p. 322
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