[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_post_title admin_label=”Post Title” title=”on” meta=”off” author=”on” date=”on” categories=”on” comments=”on” featured_image=”off” featured_placement=”below” parallax_effect=”on” parallax_method=”on” text_orientation=”left” text_color=”dark” text_background=”off” text_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” module_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” title_all_caps=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
“A major discovery occurred at Sinai, accidentally, in the wake of yet another war, in 1975, when complete volumes as well as isolated fragments came to light in a storeroom that had been immured and forgotten for at least a century.”[1]<\/a><\/p>\n The so-called “New Finds” of St. Catharine’s Monastery included manuscripts and fragments in many different languages, but Greek texts are the most numerous\u2014e.g. lost leaves and fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus<\/a>, celebrated as the “oldest Bible in the world.”<\/p>\n Among a host of treasures is the New Finds manuscript M\u0393 71, a Greek copy of St. John Climacus’ Ladder of Divine<\/em> Ascent.\u00a0<\/em>Climacus was the seventh-century leader of St. Catharine’s Monastery and the author of the Ladder<\/em>,\u00a0a spiritual text that has held classic status in Eastern Christianity on a par with such classics as the\u00a0Rule<\/i>\u00a0of St. Benedict in the western church. The New Finds Greek manuscript appears to have been copied in about the seventh century, making it the oldest known witness to the Ladder<\/em>\u00a0and the point of departure for any thorough study of Climacus’ text, for which no critical edition yet exists.<\/p>\n CSART is grateful to St. Catharine’s Monastery for making this crucial witness\u00a0available to its Fellows and Student Scholars as they conduct research on it in pursuit of expanding our knowledge of Climacus and this valuable text.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [1]<\/a> Georgi R. Parpulov, \u201cThe Greek and Latin Manuscripts of Mount Sinai and the Scholarly World,\u201d in Cyril Mango et al., eds., St Catherine\u2019s Monastery at Mount Sinai:\u2028 Its Manuscripts and their Conservation<\/em> (Saint Catharine Foundation, 2011), 38.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/csart\/files\/2016\/10\/Sinai-MS-MG-71-3r.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent<\/em> in Greek,\u00a0Sinai New Finds\u00a0MS M\u0393 71 (fol. 3r), ca. 7th century<\/p>\n St. Catharines Monastery. Used by permission.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “A major discovery occurred at Sinai, accidentally, in the wake of yet another war, in 1975, when complete volumes as well as isolated fragments came to light in a storeroom that had been immured and forgotten for at least a century.”[1] The so-called “New Finds” of St. Catharine’s Monastery included manuscripts and fragments in many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1505,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"