Bibliography on Christianity in Palestine – www.csc.org.il

All the bibliographic data listed below (related to Georgia and Georgians) has been copied from the website of The Center for the Study of Christianity  www.csc.org.il, which is managed by the Center for the Study of Christianity (Israel).  The Center cooperates with the Department of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University.

The search on this website is possible both through the catalog as well as the directory (by author, year, era, keyword).

The reason titles were copied are the following:
1. The list below unites all the publications that could be found under the following keywords: Georgia, Georgians, Georgian Anachorets.
2. All the links to the available online resources have been added to the posted list.

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Abu-Manneh, B., ''The Georgians in Jerusalem in the Mamluk Period'', Pages 102-112 in Egypt and Palestine: A Millenium of Association (868–1948). Edited by Cohen, Amnon and Baer, G.. Jerusalem: 1984.

Keywords: Mamluk Period, Georgians, Jerusalem, XV CE, XIV CE.

Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria, ''The Pilgrimage of Peter the Iberian'', Cathedra 91 (1999): 97-112 (in Hebrew).

Keywords: Byzantine, Peter the Iberian, pilgrimage, V CE, Monophysites, monasticism, Georgians, Gaza.

Blake, Robert P., ''Catalogue des manuscrits géorgiennes de la bibliotheque patriarchale grecque à Jerusalem'', Revue de l’Orient Chrétien 3 (1922-23): 345-413; 4 (1924), 190-210.

Keywords: Georgian, Georgians, manuscripts, Greek Patriarchate, library, translation.

Chabot, J.B., ''Pierre l’Ibérien, evêque monophysite de Mayouma [Gaza] à la fin du Ve siècle'', Revue de l’Orient latin 3 (1895): 367-397.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Peter the Iberian, Georgians, Monophysites, Gaza, Maiuma, anti-Chalcedonian.

Childers, J.W., ''The Georgian Life of Porphyry of Gaza'', Studia Patristica 35 (2001): 374-384.

Keywords: Porphyrius of Gaza, V CE, Byzantine Palestine, hagiography, Gaza, Vita Porphyrii, Georgian.

Cohen, Amnon, ''The Ottoman Approach to Christians and Christianity in Sixteenth Century Jerusalem'', Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 7 (1996): 205-212.

Keywords: Ottoman Period, XVI CE, Muslim-Christian Relations, Holy Sites, Georgians, Coptic, Jerusalem.

Corbo, Virgilio C., Gli scavi di Khirbat Siyar el-Ghanam (Campo dei Pastori) e i Monasteri dei dintorni. SBF Collectio Maior 11. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1955.

Keywords: archaeology, monastery, monasticism, Judaean Desert, Byzantine Palestine, Georgians, Georgian.

Dagani, Rami, Knesiyot, Edot ve-Misdarim Notzriim be-Yisrael. Ariel 137-138. Jerusalem: Ariel, 1999.

Keywords: modernity, XX CE, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Georgians, Rumanians, Armenians, Syrians, Ethiopians, Copts, Roman Catholic, Protestants, education, Jewish Christianity, Holy Sites, general.

Di Segni, Leah, ''The Date of the Beit Safafa Inscription Again'', Israel Exploration Journal 47:3-4 (1997): 248-254.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, archaeology, Jerusalem, inscriptions, epigraphics, churches, VI CE, VIII CE, Georgians, Georgian.

Di Segni, Leah and Tsafrir, Yoram, ''Ethnic Composition of the Population of Jerusalem in the Byzantine Period'', Pages 261-280 (in Hebrew) in The History of Jerusalem: The Roman and Byzantine Periods (70–638 CE). Edited by Tsafrir, Yoram and Safrai, Shmuel. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, 1999. [Full English Version]

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Jerusalem, demography, population, Georgians, Armenians, Franks.

Dowling, T.E., ''The Georgian Church in Jerusalem'', Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement 43 (1911): 181-187. [Full English Version, p.52]

Keywords: Jerusalem, churches, Georgians.

Ebanoidze, Mzia and Wilkinson, John, eds. Timothy Gabashvili. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem, 1755–1759. Caucasus World. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. [Preview in Google Books]

Keywords: Ottoman Period, XVIII CE, pilgrimage, Georgians, Georgian, primary sources.

Engberding, H., ''Kann Petrus der Iberer mit Dionysius Areopagita identifiziert werden?'', Oriens Christianus 38 (1954): 68-95.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Peter the Iberian, Georgians, pseudo-Dionysius, Monophysites.

Esbroeck, Michel van, ed. Le plus anciens homéliares géorgiens. Louvain-la-Neuve: 1975.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, VI CE, homilies, literature, primary sources, Nativity, liturgy, Peter of Jerusalem, Georgian, translation.

Flusin, Bernard, ''De l’arabe au grec, puis au géorgien, une vie de saint Jean Damascène'', Pages 51-61 in Traduction et traducteurs au moyen âge. Edited by Contamine, G.. Actes du colloque international du CNRS. Paris: 1986.

Keywords: Islamic Period, VII CE, VIII CE, John Damascene, hagiography, translation, Melkites, Arab Christians, Christian Arabic, Greek, literature, Georgian, X CE, John of Jerusalem (VII).

Gagoshidze, Georgi, ''Paleographic Study of the Georgian Tombstone from Khirbat Umm Leisun, Jerusalem'', Atiqot(2015): 181-184.

Keywords: Georgian, Jerusalem, Epigraphics, Monastery, Palaeography, V CE, VI CE, Inscriptions, Judaean Desert, byzantine Palestine.

Gagoshidze, George, ''Georgian Churches Dedicated to St. Sabas the Purified'', Pages 363-384 in The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present. Edited by Patrich, Joseph. OLA 98. Louvain: Peeters, 2001.

Keywords: Georgia, Georgians, Sabaite, Sabas, Byzantine Palestine, influence.

Gagoshidze, George, ''Mtskheta-Georgian Jerusalem, Svetitskhoveli'', Pages 47-62 in Jerusalem as narrative space : erzählraum Jerusalem. Edited by Hoffmann, Annette and Wolf, Gerhard. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Keywords: Jerusalem, Georgia, XV CE, Holy sepulchre, Symbolism.

Gagoshidze, George, ''Jerusalem in Medieval Georgian Fine Art'', Pages 133-138 in Visual Constructs of Jerusalem. Edited by Kühnel, Bianc and Noga-Banai, Galit and Vorholt, Hanna. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2014.

Keywords: Georgia, Art, Middle Ages, Holy Sepulchre, XII-XV CE, Architecture, Images.

Garitte, Gérard, Catalogue des manuscrits géorgiens littéraires du mont Sinai. CSCO 165. Louvain: 1956.

Keywords: St. Catherine, library, manuscripts, Georgian, Georgians.

Garitte, Gérard, ed. La prise de Jérusalem par le Perses en 614. CSCO 202-203, Iber. 11-12. Louvain: Peeters, 1960.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, VII CE, Persian invasion, historiography, Jerusalem, Antiochus Strategos, Georgian, primary sources.

Gil, Moshe, ''The Christians'', Pages 430-489 in A History of Palestine, 634–1099. Edited by Idem.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Keywords: VII CE, VIII CE, IX CE, X CE, XI CE, Islamic Period, pilgrimage, Jerusalem, Mar Sabas, Nazareth, Bethlehem, sectarianism, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Jacobites, Monophysites, Nestorians, Armenians, Georgians, patriarch, holidays, persecution.

Goussen, H., ''Über georgische Drucke und Handschriften die Festordnung und den Heiligenkalender des altchristlichen Jerusalems bettreffend'', Liturgie und Kunst 4 (1923): 1-42.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Jerusalem, liturgy, holidays, calendar, Georgians, lectionary, Georgian.

Griffith, Sidney H., ''From Aramaic to Arabic: The Languages of the Monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Period'', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51 (1997): 11-31.

Keywords: Christian Palestinian Aramaic, monasticism, Byzantine Palestine, Islam, VIII CE, Greek, VII CE, VI CE, V CE, language, Armenians, Georgians, Judaean Desert, Mar Sabas, Cyril of Scythopolis, Syriac, Melkites, Christian Arabic.

Hamilton, Bernard, ''Latins and Georgians and the Crusader Kingdom'', Al-Masaq Volume 23 (2011):

Keywords: Crusaders, XII CE, XI CE, XIII CE, Crusades, Georgian, Latin Kingdom.

Hetherington, P., ''Who Is This King of Glory? The Byzantine Enamels of an Icon Frame and Revetment in Jerusalem'',Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 53:1 (1990): 25-38.

Keywords: art, iconography, icons, Jesus, XIII CE, XIV CE, Georgians.

Honigmann, Ernest, Pierre l’Ibérien et les écrits du Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite. Mémoires de l’Académie Royale de Belgique 48.3. Bruxelles: 1952.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, VI CE, Peter the Iberian, pseudo-Dionysius, Georgians, Gaza.

Horn, Cornelia B., Beyond Theology: The Career of Peter the Iberian in the Christological Controversies of Fifth Century Palestine. Ph.D. dissertation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2001.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Peter the Iberian, Georgians, theology, dogmatics, christology, Chalcedon, Monophysites, Monophysitism, conflict, monasticism.

Janin, R., ''Les Géorgiens à Jérusalem'', Échos d’Orient 16 (1913): 32-38, 211-219.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Jerusalem, Georgian, Georgians.

Jeffery, P., ''The Sunday Office of Seventh-Century Jerusalem in the Georgian Chant Book (Iadgari): A Preliminary Report'', Studia Liturgica 21 (1991): 52-75.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Jerusalem, VII CE, liturgy, Sunday, Georgian, Georgians, Sabaite, Mar Sabas, translation.

Kofsky, Aryeh, ''Peter the Iberian: Pilgrimage, Monasticism and Ecclesiastical Politics in Byzantine Palestine'', Liber Annuus 47 (1997): 209-222.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Georgians, Monophysites, Chalcedon, Peter the Iberian, pilgrimage, monasticism, anti-Chalcedonian.

Kofsky, Aryeh, ''Peter the Iberian and the Question of the Holy Places'', Cathedra 91 (1999): 79-96 (in Hebrew).

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Peter the Iberian, Georgians, Holy Sites, Monophysites, anti-Chalcedonian.

Kühnel, Gustav, ''Das Kreuzkloster: Neue Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte, Legende und Malerei'', Mitteilungen der Georgischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin (1996): 1-19.

Keywords: Crusaders, Latin Kingdom, Georgians, monastery, Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem, monasticism, art, frescoes, cross, churches, archaeology, Georgian.

Lang, D.M., ''Peter the Iberian and His Biographers'', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2 (1951): 158-168.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, VI CE, Monophysites, Monophysitism, Peter the Iberian, hagiography, Gaza, Georgians, Maiuma.

Lerner, Constantine, ''Sara Miapor: An Armenian Character in The Life of St. Nino and Jerusalem'', Pages 111-119 inThe Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Edited by Stone, Michael E. and Ervine, Roberta R. and Stone, Nira. Hebrew University Armenian Studies 4. Leuven / Paris / Sterling, Virginia: Peeters, 2002.

Keywords: Armenian, Armenians, Jerusalem, Georgian, Georgians, Byzantine Palestine, V CE.

Mgaloblishvili, Tamila, ''The Georgian Sabaite (Sabatsminduri) Literary School and the Sabatsmindian Version of the Georgian Mravaltavi (Polykephalon)'', Pages 229-233 in The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present. Edited by Patrich, Joseph. OLA 98. Louvain: Peeters, 2001. 

Keywords: Georgian, Georgians, monasticism, Sabaite, Mar Sabas, V CE, VI CE, Byzantine Palestine, translation.

Mgaloblishvili, Tamila, ''An Unknown Georgian Monastery in the Holy Land'', Aram 19 (2007): 527-539.

Keywords: Georgian, Georgians, monasticism, V CE, VI CE, Byzantine Palestine, early Islamic Palestine.

Mgaloblishvili, Tamila, ''How Mtskheta Turned into the Georgians' New Jerusalem'', Pages 59-66 in Visual Constructs of Jerusalem. Edited by Kühnel, Bianc and Noga-Banai, Galit and Vorholt, Hanna. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2014.

Keywords: Georgia, Jerusalem, IV-V CE, geopolitical holy land, Liturgy.

Mgaloblishvili, Tamila, ''The Inscription from Khirbat Umm Leisun, and Georgian Presence in the Holy Land'', Atiqot 83 (2015): 185-193.

Keywords: Jerusalem, Georgian, Inscriptions, Palaeography, Archaeology, Epigraphics, Monastery, Monasticism, Peter the Iberian, Pilgrimage, Church, VI CE, byzantine Palestine.

Nanobashvili, Mariam, ''The Development of Literary Contacts between the Georgians and the Arabic Speaking Christians in Palestine from the 8th to the 10th Century'', Aram 15 (2003): 269-274.

Keywords: Islamic Period, IX CE, X CE, VIII CE, Melkites, Arab Christians, Georgians, Georgian, literature.

Pahlitzsch, Johannes and Ḥasan b.Muḥammad b.Qalāwūn, al-Nāṣir Mamluk Sultan, ''Documents on Intercultural Communication in Mamlūk Jerusalem: the Georgians under sultan An-Nāṣir Ḥasan in 759 (1358)'', Pages 373-394 inDiplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500: Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication. Edited by Beihammer, Alexander D. and Parani, Maria G. and Schabel, Christopher D.. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008.

Keywords: Mamluk Period, XIV CE, Georgians.

Peeters, Paulus, ''De Codice hiberico Biliothecae Bodleianae Oxoniensis'', Analecta Bollandiana 31 (1912): 301-318.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, VII CE, Persian invasion, Antiochus Strategos, Jerusalem, Georgian, Georgians.

Peeters, Paulus, ''La Vie géorgienne de Porphyre de Gaza'', Analecta Bollandiana 59 (1941): 65-216.

Keywords: Porphyrius of Gaza, V CE, IV CE, Byzantine Palestine, hagiography, primary sources, Vita Porphyrii, Georgian.

Peradze, Grigol, An Account of Georgian Monks and Monasteries in Palestine as Revealed in the Writings of Non-Georgian Pilgrims. Hertford: 1937.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, pilgrimage, Georgians.

Peradze, Grigol, ''An Account of the Monks and Monasteries in Palestine'', Georgia 4-5 (1937): 181-246.

Keywords: Georgians, monasticism, pilgrimage.

Peradze, Grigol, Foreign Pilgrims on Georgian Monks and Georgian Monasteries in Palestine. Tbilisi: Kandeli, 1995.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, pilgrimage, Georgians, inscriptions, Georgian, Ottoman Period.

Raabe, R., Petrus der Iberer: Ein Charakterbild zur Kirchen- und Sittengeschichte des 5. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1895.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Peter the Iberian, V CE, Monophysites, Georgians, John Rufus, Gaza, Maiuma, hagiography, literature, primary sources.

Renoux, Charles, ''Hymnographie géorgienne ancienne et Hymnaire de Saint-Sabas (Ve-VIIIe siìcle)'', Irénikon 80 (2007): 36-69.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, Islamic Period, V CE, VI CE, VII CE, VIII CE, Mar Sabas, Georgians, liturgy.

Renoux, Charles, ''From Jerusalem to Armenia. the liturgical heritage of the Armenian Church'', Proche-Orient Chrétien 46 (1996): 293-304.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Armenian, liturgy, georgian.

Rose, Richard B., ''Jerusalem and Jihad. The Devotion of Iberian Nation to Jerusalem; a Footnote on the Role of the Georgians in Late Medieval Jerusalem'', Proche-Orient Chrétien 41 (1991): 10-24.

Keywords: Mamluk Period, XIII CE, XII CE, Jerusalem, Georgian, Il-Khen Ghazi, armenian, cyrus.

Roques, R., ''Pierre l’Ibérien et le “Corpus” dionysien'', Revue de l’histoire des religions 145 (1954): 69-98.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, V CE, Peter the Iberian, Georgians, pseudo-Dionysius, Monophysites.

Salame, Ovadia, ''The Georgians in Jerusalem according to the Three 16th Century Arabic Documents'', Georgian Academy of Sciences (1991): 1-31.

Keywords: Mamluk Period, XVI CE, Jerusalem, Georgians.

Salaville, Severien, ''Un document géorgien de liturgie et d’archéologie palestiniennes du VIIe siècle'', Échos d’Orient17 (1914-15): 107-110.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, VII CE, liturgy, Georgian, Georgians.

Samir, S. Khalil, ''Les plus anciens homéliaires géorgiens et les versions patristiques arabes'', Orientalia Christiana Periodica 42 (1976): 217-231.

Keywords: Islamic Period, Georgian, Georgians, translation, Melkites, Arab Christians, Christian Arabic.

Seligman, Jon, ''A Georgian Monastery from the Byzantine Period at Khirbat Umm Leisun, Jerusalem (with a contribution by Jon Seligman and Iulon Gagoshidze)'', Atiqot 83 (2015): 145-179.

Keywords: Jerusalem, Coenobia, Monastery, Monks, Mosaics, burial, Anthropology, Georgian, byzantine Palestine, Inscriptions, Palaeography, Epigraphics, Archaeology, Judaean Desert.

Skhirladze, Zaza, ''Georgian Manuscripts in the Lavra of St. Sabas'', Le Muséon 116:1-2 (2003): 217-231.
Keywords: Judaean Desert, monastery, monasticism, Mar Sabas, library, manuscripts, Georgians, Georgian.

Tchekhanovets, Yana, ''On the Identification Problem of the Georgian “Devtubani” Monastery'', Liber Annuus 57 (2007): 423-430.

Keywords: Early Islamic Palestine, XIII-XV, Byzantine monastery of Giants, Devtubani monastery, Rephaim valley, Georgian.

Tchekhanovets, Yana, ''Bishop Iohane from Khirbat Umm Leisun and the Caucasian Albanian Church'', Atiqot 83 (2015): 195-197.

Keywords: Jerusalem, Church, Georgian, Epigraphics, Palaeography, Monastery, Monasticism, Peter the Iberian, Armenians, Georgia, Archaeology, Inscriptions.

Tchekhanovets, Yana, ''De Profundis- Georgian Anchorets in Horvat Burgin'', Pages 186-193 (in Hebrew) in New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region. Edited by D. G. Stiebel and O. Peleg-Barkat and D. Amit. Jerusalem: 2010.

Keywords: Archaeology, Georgian Anchorets.

Tchekhanovets, Yana, ''Early Georgian Pilgrimage To the Holy Land'', Liber Annuus 61 (2011): 453-472.

Keywords: Pilgrimage, Georgia, byzantine Palestine, Islamic Period, Holy Sites, Graffiti, Inscriptions, Nazareth, Bethlehem.

Tsereteli, G., The Most Ancient Georgian Inscriptions from Palestine. Tbilisi: 1960.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, inscriptions, epigraphics, Georgian, Georgians.

Tzaferis, Vassilios, The Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. Athens: 1987.

Keywords: Monastery of the Cross, Greek Orthodox, Georgians, Byzantine Palestine, archaeology, monasticism, architecture, VI CE.

Tzaferis, Vassilios, ''The Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem'', Pages 143-146 in Ancient Churches Revealed. Edited by Tsafrir, Yoram. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993.

Keywords: Byzantine Palestine, archaeology, Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem, Georgians, monasticism, VI CE.