Dahari Uzi. Monastic Settlements in South Sinai in the Byzantine Period: The Archaeological Remains

Israel Antiquities Authority, 2000. — 170 p. — (IAA reports 9).A detailed study of the monastic movement in the Byzantine period based on historical and archaeological evidence of monastic settlements and religious life in and around Mt Sinai. The historical sources consist of the writings of historians, the monks themselves and Christian pilgrims that visited the area, whilst evidence from excavations taking place largely in the 1970s, explores the distribution, location, size, organisation, names and material culture of the small, isolated monastic settlements.