Approaching the holy mountain
Subtitle: art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
By: edited by Sharon E.J. Gerstel and Robert S. Nelson
Series: Cursor mundi -- v. 11; Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) -- v. 11.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9782503531274
Subjects: Christian antiquities; Christian art and symbolism; Byzantine Icons; Orthodox Eastern Church; Antiquities; Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai); Liturgy; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art; Congresses; Byzantine Illumination of books and manuscripts
Other titles: Art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
Notes: "The papers of this volume derive from the symposium "Icons of Sinai", held at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, on 26-27 January 2007"--P. [xxvii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sinai studies : an overview and introduction  -- Robert S. Nelson; title: Paving the road to Sinai : Georgios and Maria Soteriou on the holy mountain  -- Ioanna Christoforaki; title: Place. --; title: The transfigured mountain : icons and transformations of pilgrimage at the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai  -- Jaś Elsner and Gerhard Wolf; title: Excavations on the holy summit (Jebel Mūsā) at Mount Sinai : preliminary remarks on the Justinianic Basilica  -- Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and Maria Panayotidi; title: The architecture of the Justinianic Basilica on the holy summit  -- Petros Koufopoulos and Marina Myriantheos-Koufopoulou; title: Painted skins : the illusions and realities of architectural polychromy, Sinai and Egypt  -- Elizabeth Bolman; title: Liturgy --; title: Worship on Sinai in the first Christian millennium : glimpses of a lost world  -- Robert F Taft; title: Late Byzantine cathedral liturgy and the Service of the Furnace  -- Alexander Lingas; title: Manuscript --; title: Manuscript production on Mount Sinai from the tenth to the thirteenth century  -- Nancy P. Ševčenko; title: Sinai, MS gr. 2: Exploring the significance of a Sinai manuscript  -- Hieromonk Justin Sinaites; title: Icon --; title: Visualizing the divine : an Early Byzantine icon of the 'Ancient of Days' at Mount Sinai  -- Kathleen Corrigan; title: Regarding prayer : contemplating an icon of John the Forerunner  -- Charles Barber; title: Archive and Atelier : Sinai and the case of the narrative icon  -- Paroma Chatterjee; title: Mural and icon painting at Sinai in the thirteenth century  -- Georgi R. Parpulov; title: Sinai, Acre, Tripoli, and the 'backwash from the Levant' : where did the icon painters work?  -- Rebecca W. Corrie; title: Sinai and Cyprus : holy mountain, holy isle  -- Annemarie Weyl Carr; title: Space --; title: Three East Slavic pilgrims at Sinai  -- translated by Georgi R. Parpulov; title: Turning holy mountains into ladders to Heaven : overlapping topographies and poetics of space in Post-Byzantine sacred engravings of Mount Sinai and Mount Athos  -- Veronica Della Dora; title: On the painted ancestry of Domenikos Theotokopoulos's sacred landscapes of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St Catherine -- Cristina Stancioiu.