35.33111 The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, Arabic: دير مار سابا; Hebrew: מנזר מר סבא; Greek:...
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The Mar Saba letter is a Greek document which scholar Morton Smith reported in 1960 that he had discovered in the library of the Mar Saba monastery in...
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Morton Smith (section Mar Saba letter)
Columbia University. He is best known for his reported discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts...
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version of the Gospel of Mark. The gospel is mentioned exclusively in the Mar Saba letter, a document of disputed authenticity, which is said to have been...
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Clarel (section Part Three: Mar Saba)
wilderness where John the Baptist preached and baptized Jesus, the monastery at Mar Saba, and Bethlehem—Clarel wants to accompany them, but he does not wish to...
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Sabbas the Sanctified (redirect from Saba the Archimandrite)
He was the founder of several convents, most notably the one known as Mar Saba, in Palestine. The saint's name is derived from Imperial Aramaic: סַבָּא...
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Ubeidiya, West Bank (section Mar Saba Monastery)
Mar Dosi ('Saint Theodosius'), named after its founder; and Mar Saba Monastery, or simply Mar Saba, founded and named after Saint Sabbas ('Mar Saba')...
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of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem on 4 December 749. A polymath whose fields of interest...
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their mother abbey, Mar Saba. The Sabaite monastery prospered quickly and for a long time. In the 8th and 9th centuries, San Saba was one of the most...
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1256 and war grew out of a dispute concerning land in Acre then owned by Mar Saba (the monastery of Saint Sabbas) but claimed by both Genoa and Venice. Initially...
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