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49-464: Collection of ancient manuscripts Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus , mostly originating in Saint Catherine's Monastery , Sinai from Sin. Georg. 34; Tsagareli 81, is an accumulation of nineteen Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest manuscripts containing Old Testament , Gospel and Epistles pericopes of diverse Lectionaries , among them two witnesses of

98-616: A Iadgari (979-980 AD). Part of the parchment leaves (Sin. Georg. 34) had been brought by him from the Monastery of Saint Sabas , south of Jerusalem in the Kidron Valley , when he moved to St Catherine's Monastery and became there librarian. In the nineteenth century most of the codex was removed from the monastery at two periods. C. Tischendorf took two thirds in 1855 and 1857 with the Codex Sinaiticus to St Peterburg and handed it over to

147-1508: A Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic, in Dali Chitunashvili (ed.), The Caucasus between East and West (Tbilisi, 2012), pp. 482–494. ^ Sebastian P. Brock , Ktabe Mpassqe . Dismembered and Reconstituted Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies 15, 2012, pp. 8–10. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et Profana ex Oriente et Occidente allata: sive, Notitia codicum graecorum, arabicorum, syriacorum, copticorum, hebraicorum, aethiopicorum, latinorum, cum exceptis multis maximan partem graecis et triginta quinque scripturarum antiquissimarum speciminibus (Leipzig, 1855) https://archive.org/download/anecdotasacraet00tiscgoog/anecdotasacraet00tiscgoog.pdf ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Notitia Editionis Codicis Sinaitici (Leipzig, 1960) https://archive.org/download/notitiaeditionis00tisc/notitiaeditionis00tisc.pdf ^ M. F. Brosset, Note sur un manuscrit géorgien de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique et provenant de M. Tischendorf, Mélanges Asiatiques 3, 1858, pp. 264-280. [1] ^ Incompletely edited by J. P. N. Land , Anecdota Syriaca IV (Leiden, 1875), pp. 185–189. ^ N. Pigoulewski, Manuscrits syriaques bibliques de Léningrad (suite), Revue Biblique 46, 1937, p. 556. ^ Olga V. Vasilieva, Christian Manuscripts of

196-992: A Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic, in Jean-Pierre Mahé et al. (eds.), The Caucasus between East and West (Tbilisi, 2012), pp. 482–494. Sebastian P. Brock , Ktabe Mpassqe . Dismembered and Reconstituted Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies 15, 2012, pp. 7–20. Christa Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus (CSRG/O/P/S). A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, Le Muséon 127, 2014, pp. 263–309. See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Bible portal Biblical manuscript Codex Sinaiticus Differences between codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Eusebian Canons Fifty Bibles of Constantine Lectionary List of New Testament uncials John Chrysostom External links [ edit ] Sinai Palimpsest Project at

245-603: A collection of supplementary books of the Kartlis Cxovreba , dating from the 9th century. The most important manuscripts have since been filmed or digitized, and so are accessible to scholars. With planning assistance from Ligatus, a research center of the University of the Arts London , the library was extensively renovated, reopening at the end of 2017. Since 2011, a team of imaging scientists and experienced scholars in

294-741: A degree in history in 1958 and earned a doctorate in 1969 and a post-doctorate in 1984. Aleksidze worked at the Georgian Institute of Manuscripts (now the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts) from 1958 to 1968 and the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography from 1968 to 1979. Later, from 1979 to 2006, Aleksidze chaired the Department of Armenian Studies at the Tbilisi State University. He then served as director of

343-850: A gift from Tsar Alexander II of Russia . The Codex was sold by Stalin in 1933 to the British Museum and is now in the British Library , London, where it is on public display. Prior to September 1, 2009, a previously unseen fragment of Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in the monastery's library, as well as among the New Finds of 1975. On other visits (1855, 1857) Constantin von Tischendorf also amassed their more valuable manuscripts ( Greek , Christian Palestinian Aramaic , Georgian , Syriac ) and took them with him to St. Petersburg and Leipzig, where they are stored today. In February 1892, Agnes S. Lewis discovered an early palimpsest manuscript of

392-545: A relish in the kitchen. For most of the time of the Mamluk Sultanate the monastery was able to prosper, but as the sultanate started to decline, it went through a crisis. While there had been several hundred monks in the mid-14th century, a hundred years later there were only several dozens. Local Bedouin tribes started harassing the community, robbing their property of the Christian coastal village of Al-Tur and in 1505,

441-628: A secluded storage area of the St George Tower in 1975. Highlights include "108 pages of previously unknown Greek poems and the oldest-known recipe attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates ;" additional folios for the transmission of the Old Syriac Gospels; two unattested witnesses of an early Christian apocryphal text the Dormition of Mary ( Transitus Mariae ) of which most of the Greek text

490-479: Is lost; a previously unknown martyrdom of Patriklos of Caesarea Maritima ( Israel ), one of the eleven followers of Pamphilus of Caesarea ; some of the earliest known Georgian manuscripts; as well as insight into dead languages such as the previously hardly attested Caucasian Albanian and Christian Palestinian Aramaic , the local dialect of the early Byzantine period, with many unparalleled text witnesses. The complex houses irreplaceable works of art: mosaics,

539-579: Is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest continuously operating library. It preserves the world's second-largest collection of early codices and manuscripts , outnumbered only by the Vatican Library . It contains Greek , Christian Palestinian Aramaic , Syriac , Georgian , Arabic , Ethiopic/Ge‘ez , Latin , Armenian , and Church Slavonic manuscripts and books, along with very rare Hebrew and Coptic books. In May 1844 and February 1859, Constantin von Tischendorf visited

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588-629: The Gospel in St Catherine Monastery's library that became known as the Syriac Sinaiticus and it remains in the monastery's possession. Agnes and her sister Margaret D. Gibson returned in 1893 with the Cambridge team of the two scholars that included their wives, and also J. Rendel Harris to photograph and transcribe the manuscript in its entirety, as well as to prepare the first catalogues of

637-531: The Kingdom of Jerusalem , and their respective courts. Dominican theologian Felix Fabri visited the monastery in the 15th century and provided a detailed account of it. He also described the monastery's gardens, noting the presence of "tall fruit trees, salad herbs, grass, and grain," and mentioning "more than three thousand olive trees, many fig-trees and pomegranates, and a store of almonds and other fruits." The olives were used to produce oil for lighting lamps and as

686-565: The Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. Only among the New Finds two additional palimpsest manuscripts came to light containing additional passages of the Old Syriac Gospels. The Monastery also has a copy of the Ashtiname of Muhammad , in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is claimed to have bestowed his protection upon the monastery. Additionally, the monastery houses a copy of Mok'c'evay K'art'lisay,

735-511: The earliest known depiction of Jesus as Christ Pantocrator . Saint Catherine's has as its backdrop the three mountains it lies near: Ras Sufsafeh (possibly the Biblical Mount Horeb , peak c.1 km (0.62 mi) west); Jebel Arrenziyeb, peak c.   1km south; and Mount Sinai (locally, Jabal Musa , by tradition identified with the biblical Mount Sinai ; peak c.  2 km (1.2 mi) south). The monastery

784-532: The 13th century and is still in use today on special occasions. During the Ottoman Empire , the mosque was in desolate condition; it was restored in the early 20th century. During the seventh century, the isolated Christian anchorites of the Sinai were eliminated: only the fortified monastery remained. The monastery is surrounded by the massive fortifications that have preserved it. Until the twentieth century, access

833-825: The Apostles) CSRi Catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem CSRj Unknown homily (Ezechiel 3:18; 33:13); John Chrysostom's homily of the Prodigal Son CSRk Unknown homily (1 Kingdoms 17) CSRl Vita of Pachomios (Paralipomena) CSRm Martyrdom of Philemon CSRn Unidentified CSRo Unidentified CSRp Unidentified [CSRq] Dormition of the Mother of God Transitus Mariae [CSRr] Dormition of Mother of God Transitus Mariae (unclear classification) [CSRs] John Chrysostom, Homily de poenitentia References [ edit ] ^ Partially and previously Tsagareli 81 according to

882-557: The Chapel of the Burning Bush (also known as "Saint Helen's Chapel") ordered to be built by Empress Consort Helena , mother of Constantine the Great , at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush . The living bush on the grounds is purportedly the one seen by Moses. Structurally the monastery's king post truss is the oldest known surviving roof truss in the world. From

931-2523: The Christian Palestinian Aramaic Version , A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, V (Groningen, 1999). ISBN   90-5693-030-3 Christa Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus. A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, Le Muséon 127, 2014, pp. 263–309. Christa Müller-Kessler, Neue Fragmente zu den Katechesen des Cyrill von Jerusalem im Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptusi (Georg. NF 19, 71) mit einem zweiten Textzeugen (Syr. NF 11) aus dem Fundus des St. Katherinenklosters, Oriens Christianus 104, 2021, pp. 25–66. Christa Müller-Kessler, Piecing together Christian Palestinian Aramaic Texts under Georgian Manuscripts (St Petersburg, NLR, Syr. 16; Sinai, Georg. NF 19, 71; Oslo, Martin Schøyen MS 35, 37; Princeton, Garrett MS 24; Göttingen, Syr. 17, 19, 23, 25), Digital Kartvelology 1, 2022, pp. 25–49. https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.1.2022.7265 Christa Müller-Kessler, The Early Jerusalem Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th–7th Centuries AD): Lections Containing Unattested Old and New Testament Pericopes in Unpublished Palimpsests (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32; Georgian NF 19, 71), Le Muséon 134, 2023, pp. 201–263. Christa Müller-Kessler, Addendum to John Chrysostom’s Homily de poenitentia (CPG 4631; PG 60, 765–768) in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Digital Kartvelology 2, 2023, pp. 170–176. https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.2.2023.7475 Further reading [ edit ] Hugo Duensing , Christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Texte und Fragmente (Göttingen, 1906). Hugo Duensing , Nachlese christlich-palästinisch aramäischer Fragmente , NAWG , phil.-hist. Kl. 5 (Göttingen, 1955). Nina Pigoulewski , Manuscrits syriaques bibliques de Léningrad (suite), Revue Biblique 46, 1937, pp. 556–562, pls. XIV–XV. Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaja , Katalog Sirijskiy rukopisej Leningrada, Moskva (Palestinskij sbornik Vypusk 6, 69; Leningrad, 1960), no. VI, p. 21; no. XVII p. 55; no. XXXI p. 109; Ris. 5 p. 111. Gérard Garitte , Addendum: le codex sin. Géor.81(Tsag.), Le Muséon 80, 1967, pp. 90–92. Michel van Esbroeck, Les manuscrits de Jean Zosime Sin. 34 et Tsagareli 81, Bedi Kartlisa 39, 1981, pp. 63–75. Sebastian P. Brock , Catalogue of

980-540: The Early Period. Gospels , Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIA (Groningen, 1998), pp. 52–55. ISBN   90-5693-018-4 ^ Alain Desreumaux, Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus , Histoire du Texte Biblique 3 (Lausanne, 1997), pp. 108–111. ISBN   2-9700088-3-1 ^ augmented by Sinai, Georgian NF 19; 71 Sinai Palimpsest Project ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Three Early Witnesses of

1029-519: The Early Period. Gospels , Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIA (Groningen, 1998). ISBN   90-5693-018-4 Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Acts of the Apostles and Epistles, Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic IIB (Groningen, 1998). ISBN   90-5693-019-2 Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, The Catechism of Cyril of Jerusalem in

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1078-781: The East in the National Library of Russia, Manuscripta Orientalia 13, 2007, p. 29. ^ Hans Peter Kraus, Monumenta codicum manuscriptorum. An exhibition catalogue of manuscripts of the 6th to the 17th centuries from the libraries of the monasteries of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai; Monte Cassino; Lorsch; Nonantola (New York, 1974). ^ Hugo Duensing , Neue christlich-palästinische-aramäische Fragmente , NAWG, phil.-hist. Kl. 9 (Göttingen, 1944). ^ E. G. Sørenssen, M. Schoyen, The Schøyen Collection: checklist of Western manuscripts 1-2000 , 13th edition (Oslo, 1995), pp. 10–11. ^ Peter Tarras, From Sinai to Munich: Tracing

1127-609: The East in the National Library of Russia, Manuscripta Orientalia 13, 2007, pp. 24–54. Alain Desreumaux, L'apport des palimpsestes araméens christo-palestiniens: le case du Codex Zosimi Rescriptus et du Codex Climaci rescriptus, in V. Somers (ed.), Palimpsestes et éditions de textes: les textes littéraires , Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 56 (Louvain, 2009), pp. 201–211. ISBN   978-90-429-1981-5 Sebastian P. Brock , The Syriac New Finds at St. Catherines's Monastery, Sinai, and Their Significance, The Harp 27, 2011, pp. 39–52. Sebastian P. Brock , Sinai:

1176-1158: The History of a Fragment from the Grote Collection, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 6, 2020, pp. 73–90. ^ Sebastian P. Brock , Catalogue of the “New Finds” in St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai (Athens, 1995). ^ https://sinai.library.ucla.edu Sinai Palimpsest Project ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Piecing together Christian Palestinian Aramaic Texts under Georgian Manuscripts (St Petersburg, NLR, Syr. 16; Sinai, Georg. NF 19, 71; Oslo, Martin Schøyen MS 35, 37; Princeton, Garrett MS 24; Göttingen, Syr. 17, 19, 23, 25), Digital Kartvelology 1, 2022, pp. 35–40. https://adh.ge/en/digital-kartvelology . ^ Sebastian P. Brock ,Review of Alain Desreumaux, Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus (Histoire du Texte Biblique, 3), Lausanne, 1997’, in The Journal of Theological Studies , 50, p.766. ^ Martin Schøyen's part MS 36,

1225-1052: The Imperial Library, now the National Library of Russia , and the remaining third left on a clandestine route [so-called collection of Dr Friedrich Grote (1862-1922)] and found its way into various European and later also into US collections, at present in a Norwegian collection. From the New Finds of 1975 in the Monastery of Saint Catherine missing folios of some of the underlying manuscripts could be retrieved (Sinai, Georgian NF 19; 71), with one connected to Princeton, Garrett MS 24. Manuscripts [ edit ] CSRa Old Jerusalem Lectionary with Old Testament and Epistles pericopes CSRb Old Jerusalem Lectionary with Old Testament pericopes CSRc Gospel Lectionary with Eusebian Canons and Ammonian sections CSRd Lectionary with Gospel pericopes CSRe Lectionary with Gospel pericopes CSRf Gospel manuscript CSRg Gospel manuscript CSRh Praxapostolos (Acts of

1274-735: The Institute of Manuscripts from 1989 to 2006 and as head of the Department of Codicology at the National Center of Manuscripts from 2006 until his death in 2023. Aleksidze was also professor emeritus of the Tbilisi State University and academician at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences . He was decorated with the Order of Honor of Georgia in 2002 and several other academic awards. Aleksidze died in Tbilisi on 24 January 2023, at age 87. Aleksidze's research interests were focused on

1323-641: The Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai. Codex Sinaiticus at the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Codex_Sinaiticus_Rescriptus&oldid=1258534705 " Categories : 6th-century biblical manuscripts Saint Catherine's Monastery Palimpsests New Testament apocrypha Dormition of the Mother of God 5th-century literature Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Saint Catherine%27s Monastery The monastery

1372-619: The Old Jerusalem Lectionary, various unidentified homilies and two by John Chrysostom , hagiographic texts as the Life of Pachomios, the Martyrdom of Philemon Martyrs , and the Catecheses by Cyril of Jerusalem . The palimpsests manuscripts are recycled parchment material that were erased and reused by the tenth century Georgian scribe Ioane-Zosime for overwriting them with homilies and

1421-577: The Ottoman period the monastic community became almost exclusively Greek, possibly due to the decline and depopulation of Transjordanian Christian towns. From the 1480s onwards, the Wallachian princes started sending out alms to the monastery. A mosque was created by converting an existing chapel during the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171), which was in regular use until the era of the Mamluk Sultanate in

1470-435: The autonomous Church of Sinai , which is part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church , the monastery became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002 for its unique importance to the three major Abrahamic religions : Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . The monastery library holds unique and rare works, such as the Codex Sinaiticus and the Syriac Sinaiticus , as well as a collection of early Christian icons , including

1519-443: The best collection of early icons in the world, many in encaustic , as well as liturgical objects, chalices and reliquaries, and church buildings. The large icon collection begins with a few dating to the 5th (possibly) and 6th centuries, which are unique survivals; the monastery having been untouched by Byzantine iconoclasm , and never sacked. The oldest icon on an Old Testament theme is also preserved there. A project to catalogue

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1568-504: The body of Saint Catherine of Alexandria was said to be found in a cave in the area. Catherine was a popular saint in Europe during the Middle Ages; her story says that, for defending Christianity, she was sentenced to death on a spiked breaking wheel , but, at her touch, the wheel shattered. It was then ordered that she be beheaded . The relics of Saint Catherine, kept to this day inside

1617-918: The catalogue by Alexander Tsagareli, Katalog Gruzinskikh rukopisej Sinajskogo monastyrja, Palestinskij Sbornik IV, 1 (St Petersburg, 1888), pp. 193–240. ^ Christa Müller-Lessler, The Early Jerusalem Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th–7th Century AD): Lections Containing Unattested Old and New Testament Pericopes in Unpublished Palimpsests (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32; Georgian NF 19, 71), Le Muséon 136.1, 2023, pp. 201–263 ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus (CSRG/O/P/S) . A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, Le Muséon 127, 2014, pp. 263–309. ^ Zaza Aleksidze , Mzekala Shanidze, Lily Khevsuriani, and Michael Kavtaria, The New Finds of Sinai. Catalogue of Georgian Manuscripts Discovered in 1975 at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai (Athens, 2005). ^ Sebastian P. Brock , Sinai:

1666-505: The collections has been ongoing since the 1960s. The monastery was an important centre for the development of the hybrid style of Crusader art , and retains over 120 icons created in the style, by far the largest collection in existence. Many were evidently created by Latins, probably monks, based in or around the monastery in the 13th century. Zaza Aleksidze Zaza Aleksidze ( Georgian : ზაზა ალექსიძე , also transliterated as Zaza Alexidze; 18 October 1935 – 24 January 2023)

1715-456: The decipherment of palimpsest manuscripts from the U.S. and Europe have photographed, digitized, and studied the library's collection of palimpsests during the international Sinai palimpsests project. Palimpsests are notable for having been reused one or more times over the centuries. Since parchment was expensive and time-consuming to produce, monks would erase certain texts with orange juice or scrape them off and write over them. Though

1764-731: The jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem . The archbishop is traditionally consecrated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem ; in recent centuries he has usually resided in Cairo . During the period of the Crusades which was marked by bitterness between the Orthodox and Catholic churches, the monastery was patronized by both the Byzantine emperors and the rulers of

1813-573: The monastery for research and discovered the Codex Sinaiticus , dating from the 4th century, at the time the oldest almost completely preserved manuscript of the Bible. The finding from 1859 left the monastery for Russia , in circumstances that had been long disputed. But in 2003 Russian scholars discovered the donation act for the manuscript signed by the Council of Cairo Metochion and Archbishop Callistratus on 13 November 1869. The monastery received 9000 rubles as

1862-711: The monastery was captured and sacked. Though the sultan demanded that the property be returned to the monks, the Mamluk government was unable to subdue the Bedouin nomads and preserve order. The German explorer Martin Baumgarten visited the monastery in 1507 and noticed its decline. On April 18, 2017, an attack by the Islamic State group at a checkpoint near the Monastery killed one policeman and injured three police officers. The monastery's library, founded sometime between 527 and 565,

1911-570: The monastery, have made it a favourite site of pilgrimage . The patronal feast of the monastery is the Feast of the Transfiguration . The oldest record of monastic life at Mount Sinai comes from the travel journal written in Latin by a pilgrim woman named Egeria (Etheria; Saint Sylvia of Aquitaine ) about 381/2–386. The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527–565), enclosing

1960-596: The original texts were once assumed to be lost, imaging scientists used narrowband multispectral imaging techniques and technologies to reveal features that were difficult to see with the human eye, including ink residues and small grooves in the parchment. These images have subsequently been digitized and are now freely available for research at the UCLA Library for scholarly use. As of June 2018, at least more than 160 palimpsests were identified, with over 6,800 pages of texts recovered. The newer finds were discovered in

2009-864: The partially non-palimspsest, containing Matthew 26:59–27:10 was auctioned on 10 July 2019 by Christie's for GBP 35,000. It has in contrast to the other manuscripts a Syria script on top. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6217449 ^ The remaining part is stored in the Staats- und Universität Bibliothek, Göttingen in Germany. Formerly partially published in Hugo Duensing , Nachlese christlich-palästinisch aramäischer Fragmente , NAWG , phil.-hist. Kl. 5 (Göttingen, 1955), p. 118 (fol. 1 top)), and fully edited in Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from

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2058-524: The social and cultural history of the medieval Caucasus. He authored several works on the medieval Georgian and Armenian inscriptions and manuscripts as well as commentaries on the medieval Armenian literary sources, such as the Book of Letters and Ukhtanes , which he also translated into Georgian. Aleksidze's best known achievement is his contribution to the decipherment of the Caucasian Albanian script —

2107-558: The time of the First Crusade , the presence of Crusaders in the Sinai until 1270 spurred the interest of European Christians and increased the number of intrepid pilgrims who visited the monastery. The monastery was supported by its dependencies in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Crete, Cyprus and Constantinople. Throughout the Middle Ages, the monastery had a multiethnic profile, with monks of Arab, Greek, Syrian, Slavonic and Georgian origin. However, in

2156-1901: The «Dormition of Mary» in Christian Palestinian Aramaic. Palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Collection) and the New Finds in St Catherine's Monastery, Apocrypha 29, 2018, pp. 69–95. ^ Sinai Palimpsest Project ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Piecing together Christian Palestinian Aramaic Texts under Georgian Manuscripts (St Petersburg, NLR, Syr. 16; Sinai, Georg. NF 19, 71; Oslo, Martin Schøyen MS 35, 37; Princeton, Garrett MS 24; Göttingen, Syr. 17, 19, 23, 25), Digital Kartvelology 1, 2022, pp. 35–40. https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.1.2022.7265 . ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Addendum to John Chrysostom’s Homily de poenitentia (CPG 4631; PG 60, 765–768) in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Digital Kartvelology 2, 2023, pp. 170–176. https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.2.2023.7475 Text editions [ edit ] Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land , Anecdota Syriaca IV (Leiden, 1875), pp. 177–233 [Latin], 103–224 [Syropalestinian], pls. I–VI. Hugo Duensing , Christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Texte und Fragmente (Göttingen, 1906). Hugo Duensing , Nachlese christlich-palästinisch aramäischer Fragmente , NAWG , phil.-hist. Kl. 5 (Göttingen, 1955). Hugo Duensing , Neue christlich-palästinische-aramäische Fragmente , NAWG , phil.-hist. Kl. 9 (Göttingen, 1944). Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic Old Testament and Apocrypha , Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, I (Groningen, 1997). ISBN   90-5693-007-9 Alain Desreumaux, Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus , Histoire du Texte Biblique 3 (Lausanne, 1997). ISBN   2-9700088-3-1 Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from

2205-696: The “New Finds” in St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai (Athens, 1995). ISBN   96085739-0-4 Christa Müller-Kessler, Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Its Significance to the Western Aramaic Group, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119, 1999, pp. 631–636. Sebastian P. Brock , Review of Alain Desreumaux, Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus (Histoire du Texte Biblique 3; Lausanne, 1997), in Journal of Theological Studies 50, 1999, pp. 763–767. Olga V. Vasilieva, Christian Manuscripts of

2254-404: Was a Georgian historian and linguist who specialized in Armenian and Oriental studies. He is best known internationally for deciphering the Caucasian Albanian script . Zaza Aleksidze was born on 18 October 1935 in Telavi in then-Soviet Georgia, into the family of agricultural scientist Nikoloz Aleksidze and his wife, pianist Eugenia Aleksidze. He graduated from Tbilisi State University with

2303-482: Was built around the location of what is traditionally considered to be the place of the burning bush seen by the Hebrew prophet Moses . Saint Catherine's monastery also encloses the "Well of Moses", where Moses is said to have met his future wife, Zipporah . The well is still today one of the monastery's main sources of water. The site is considered sacred by the three major Abrahamic religions : Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . Centuries after its foundation,

2352-420: Was built by the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I , enclosing what is claimed to be the burning bush seen by Moses . Centuries later, the purported body of Saint Catherine of Alexandria , said to have been found in the area, was taken to the monastery; Saint Catherine's relics turned it into an important pilgrimage site , and the monastery was eventually renamed after the saint. Controlled by

2401-436: Was through a door high in the outer walls. The monastery, along with several dependencies in the area, constitute the entire Church of Sinai , which is headed by an archbishop , who is also the abbot of the monastery. The exact administrative status of the church within the Eastern Orthodox Church is ambiguous: by some, including the church itself, it is considered autocephalous , by others an autonomous church under

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