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020 |a 9781846312168  |q pbk. 
040 |a CY  |b Βιβλιοθήκη Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου  |e AACR-2 
050 0 |a BR167.C3613 2010 
100 1 |a Caner, Daaniel 
245 1 0 |a History and hagiography from the late antique Sinai:   |b including translations of Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations, Ammonius' Report on the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and Rhaithou, and Anastasius of Sinai's Tales of the Sinai fathers /   |c Daniel F. Caner; with contributions by Sebastian Brock, Richard M. Price and Kevin van Bladel. 
260 |a Liverpool :   |b  Liverpool University Press ,   |c  c2010. 
300 |a xi, 346 p. :   |b  ill., map ;   |c  21 cm. 
490 0 |a Translated texts for historians (Liverpool University Press);  |v 53 
500 |a The traditional attribution of the 'Narrations' to Nilus of Ancyra is now disputed by scholars, hence the use of the name 'Pseudo-Nilus' in this text.  
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-321) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction. The formation and history of Third Palestine --The Christian development of the Sinai Peninsula --Assessing the Saracen menace on the Sinai frontier --The Sinai martyr tradition --Death nad the mountain --Major Sinai narratives : introductions, translations, and commentaries. Narrations, Concerning the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and the captivity of Theodulus / Pseudo-Nilus --A ninth-century excerpt from Ps.-Nilus, Narrations / trans. Sebastian Brock --Letter to Heliodorus (Ep. IV.62) / Nilus of Ancyra --Report, Concerning the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and Raithou / Ammonius --Collection I : Tales of the Sinai fathers ; selections from Colelction II: Edifying tales / Anastasius of Sinai --Appendix I: Sinai pilgrimage accounts and travel documents. Hymns 19 and 20 / Ephraim the Syrian; trans. Kevin van Bladel --Travelogue I-IX / Egeria, with abridgements by Peter the Deacon --Religious history II.13, VI.7-13 / Theodoret of Cyrrhus -- Letter to Bishop Macarius and the monks of Sinai / Emperor Marcian ; trans. Richard M. Price --Letter VII (To the monks of Sinai) / Jacob of Serug; trans. Kevin van Bladel --Christian topography V, selections / Cosmas Indicopleustes --Travelogue 33-42 / Piacenza Pilgrim -- Letters IV,44 (To Rusticiana) and XI.2 (To Jojohn, Abbot of Mount Sinai) / Gregory the Great --Nessana Papyri, selections -- Appendix II. Sinai defences. On buildings V. viii.1-9 / Procopius of Caesarea --Annals, selections / Eutychius of Alexandria, trans Kevin van Bladel --Chronographia AM 6123, 6124 / Theophanes the Confessor.  
600 |a Nilus  |d d. ca. 430  |x Narrationes  |x English 
600 |a Anastasius  |d fl. 640-700  |x Tales of the Sinai fathers 
600 |a Αμμώνιος  |d ανθ. 5ος-7ος αι. 
600 |a Αναστάσιος  |d ανθ. 640-700 
600 |a Nilus  |d d. ca. 430 
650 0 |a Church history  |x English  |y Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600  |x Sources 
650 0 |a Christian hagiography in literature 
650 0 |a Christian hagiography  |x History  |y To 1500 
650 0 |a Narrative poetry, Greek  |x Translations into English 
650 0 |a Monasticism and religious orders  |x History  |y Early church, ca. 30-600 
650 0 |a Christian saints  |x Biography  |y Byzantine Empire 
650 0 |a Martyrs in literature 
650 0 |a Christian literature, Early  |x Greek authors 
650 0 |a Greek prose literature  |x Translations into English 
650 0 |a Christian literature, Early 
650 0 |a Monks  |x Biography  |z Egypt 
651 0 |a Sinai (Egypt)  |x Religion  |y To 1500  |x History  |x Sources 
651 0 |a Sinai (Egypt)  |x History 
700 1 |a Price, Richard, 
700 1 |a Van Bladel, Kevin Thomas  
952 |a CY-NiOUC  |b 5a044f9b6c5ad14ac1ec12c8  |c 998a  |d 945l  |e BX387.H57 2010  |t 2  |x m  |z Books