Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity

In: Transformation of the Classical Heritage v.54

In: Transformation of the Classical Heritage Ser v.54

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Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called ""Saracens."" By writing edifying tales of hostile nomads and the ensuing martyrdom of the monks, Christians not only reinforced their claims to the spi

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Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity

In: Transformation of the Classical Heritage v.54

Ward, Walter D.

Ward, Walter D.

Abstract

Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called ""Saracens."" By writing edifying tales of hostile nomads and the ensuing martyrdom of the monks, Christians not only reinforced their claims to the spi

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