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Ascetic Manuscripts & Monastic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Ascetic Literature / Christian Arabic Literature / Colophons / Hagiography / Palimpsests / Syriac Literature

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New Homilies by Aphrahat in Arabic: Demonstrations XII (“On Passover”) and XXII (“On Death and the Endtimes”) in the Palimpsest Sinai Arab. 514

Aphrahat is one of the most important early Syriac Christian authors whose extensive literary corpus is still preserved today. Between 336 and 345 CE, Aphrahat composed a total of twenty-three sermons – which he calls “demonstrations” (taḥwyāṯā) – on various subjects, ranging...

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Ascetic Literature / Colophons / Hagiography / Palimpsests / Syriac Literature

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Revisiting the Date of the Codex Sinaiticus Syrus (Sinai Syriac 30) – 779 AD, 708 AD, or 698 AD?

Together with the famous Codex Sinaiticus, the Sinaiticus Syrus palimpsest is one of the most important Biblical manuscripts ever discovered at St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai. This Syriac manuscript, now bearing the shelfmark Sinai Syriac 30, was first brought to the...

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Palladius’ De Bragmanibus in Sinai Arab. 448 and the History of the Rechabites

Palladius, bishop of Aspuna (d. ca. 430), is best known as the author of the Lausiac History (written ca. 420), one of the most important sources on early Egyptian monasticism. Dedicated to Lausus – the influential praepositus sacri cubiculi (grand chamberlain) to emperor...