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Breaking the commandments on Moses’s mountain

In his engrossing history of travellers to Mount Sinai, George Manginis describes the 19th-century theft of the priceless Codex Sinaiticus by Constantine Tischendorf

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

Mount Sinai: A History of Travellers and Pilgrims George Manginis

Haus Publishing, pp.286, £20, ISBN: 9781910376508

A medieval party of 800 Armenians at the top of Mount Sinai suddenly found themselves surrounded by fire. Their pilgrim staffs shone like candles but, wisely chanting ‘Kyrie Eleison’, they were relieved that after an hour or so the fire abated and not an eyelash of theirs was harmed.

The top of Mount Sinai is no place to be stuck in an electrical storm, even less exposed to the fire of God’s presence.

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