The identification of the medieval church of St Sabas in Jerusalem in the light of new documentary evidence
For over a century the church that the Greek monks of Dayr Mar Saba are known to have possessed inside the walls of Jerusalem in the twelfth century has usually been associated with a chapel surviving inside the Disy family house opposite the police barracks south of the Citadel, while the Zāwiyyat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
Palestine exploration quarterly
Year: 2018, Volume: 150, Issue: 4, Pages: 309-319 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sabas, der Gote, Heiliger 334-372
/ James the Less
/ Mar Saba
/ Roman Empire (Motif)
/ Pilgrimage
/ Jerusalem
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| IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | For over a century the church that the Greek monks of Dayr Mar Saba are known to have possessed inside the walls of Jerusalem in the twelfth century has usually been associated with a chapel surviving inside the Disy family house opposite the police barracks south of the Citadel, while the Zāwiyyat al-Shaykh Yaʿqūb (Yaʿqūbiyya), on the east side of Christ Church, has been identified as having originally been built in the twelfth century, possibly by Monophysites, as a church dedicated to St James the Persian, or the 'Cut-up' (Intercisus). New documentary research, however, now makes it appear more likely that Mujīr al-Dīn was correct in attributing the building of the Yaʿqūbiyya to the Greeks and that it was also the church referred to by pilgrims in the twelfth century as that of St Sabas. This means that the identity of the church in Dār Disy, if indeed it was a church, remains to be determined. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Palestine exploration quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2018.1537697 |