In the Sands of Sinai
Title | In the Sands of Sinai PDF eBook |
Author | Itzhak Brook |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Pub |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781466385443 |
October 1973: A young physician in Israel prepares to celebrate the Jewish High Holidays with his wife and children. Suddenly a military invasion changes his life forever. This book chronicles the author's transformation from a civilian to a wartime doctor. In vivid personal details, the author Itzhak Brook, a veteran of both the Israeli Defense Forces and the United States Navy, recounts his first experience in war. He describes his own doubt and misgivings of being a physician facing the daily struggle of survival in the Sinai battle zone. Expecting to heal his soldiers' physical combat wounds, Brook unexpectedly must address his soldiers' psychological battlefield trauma. In unvarnished details from the mundane to the catastrophic, he describes his perspective of a war that shaped his own life, and his nation's fragile identity.
Key to the Sinai
Title | Key to the Sinai PDF eBook |
Author | George Walter Gawrych |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Abu Ageila, Battle of, Abū ʻUjaylah, Egypt, 1956 |
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Sinai in Spring; Or, The Best Desert in the World
Title | Sinai in Spring; Or, The Best Desert in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Montague John Rendall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Sinai (Egypt) |
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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground
Title | Holy Image, Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Nelson |
Publisher | Getty Trust Publications: J. P |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
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Isolated in the remote Egyptian desert, at the base of Mount Sinai, sits the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world. The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai holds the most important collection of Byzantine icons remaining today. This catalogue, published in conjuction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 14, 2006, to March 4, 2007, features forty-three of the monastery's extremely rare--and rarely exhibited--icons and six manuscripts still little-known to the world at large. The exhibition and catalogue bring to life the central role of the icon in Byzantine religious practices. Themes include the icon's status as holy object, the ways in which the icon sanctified the place of worship, and the monks' quest for the holy. The Greek Orthodox monastery at Mount Sinai not only functioned as a major pilgrimage site for centuries but was also a cultural crossroads at the center of the shifting sands of ecclesiastical and secular politics. The accompanying essays explore how the monastery's contact with the outside world, through pilgrimage, resulted in aesthetic exchanges between the monastery and Coptic, Crusader, and Islamic art; and between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities in Europe.
The Desert of Sinai
Title | The Desert of Sinai PDF eBook |
Author | Horatius Bonar |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2023-10-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3375165714 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
The Desert of Sinai
Title | The Desert of Sinai PDF eBook |
Author | Horatius Bonar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Sinai (Egypt) |
ISBN |
Sinai in Spring
Title | Sinai in Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Montague John Rendall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Sinai (Egypt) |
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