It was made at the beginning of the ninth century, probably by Celtic Christian monks on the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. The manuscript consists of the four Christian gospels ...

Old Greek Inscription From an Ancient Fortress, Hints at Byzantine Christianity A team of Hebrew University archaeologists ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

including new insights into how the literature of Christian monks made its way into Jewish thought. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, a scholar of rabbinic Judaism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ...

Christian monks (derived from the Greek root monos, or "single") first began forming collective refuges, or monasteries, in the Egyptian desert in the fourth century. The practice spread across ...

While it’s true that traditional monasticism is declining in many historic Christian traditions, new monasticism—the contemporary reappropriation of monastic wisdom—is still very much alive.

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt.

The Irish Christian communities were not strangers to attacks and raids from local gangs. However, it has been suggested that the monks wrote more about the Viking raids because the Scandinavians ...