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History notes

Religious landscape of Sinai with isolated monastic cells

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• Mount Sinai, refuge and sanctuary
• The monastery and cult of St Catherine
• Schism between the Coptic and Orthodox Churches
• Codex Sinaiticus
• Sisters of Sinai and the palimpsest
• Landscape of John Climacus and  the desert hermits