The mirage of the Saracen : Christians and nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in late antiquity /

The Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century CE. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Si...

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Main Author: Ward, Walter D. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015].

Series: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 54.

Subjects:

Christianity > Egypt > Sinai.

Nomads > Egypt > Sinai > History.

Monasticism and religious orders > Egypt > Sinai.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Egypt > Sinai.