The Heavenly Ladder, as far as the record shows, is the only book he wrote. In the collection, is an indigenous Sinai product, variously known in English as The Heavenly Ladder or The Ladder of Divine Ascent, a recognized classic of human spirituality that has had a wide influence throughout the Orthodox world.4 What is known for sure about the author of the work is very little indeed. PRESENTATION AND STYLE IN THE HEAVENLY LADDER Forsyth and Kurt Weitzmann, in National Geographic 125 (1964): 83–127. An accessible and informative account of the expeditions was also published by two of the leaders, George H. ![]() Forsyth et al., The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Church and Fortress of Justinian (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1973), 1–4. 3 For a brief summary of the history of the Sinai expeditions, see the preface to G. I would also like to thank the anonymous reader whose comments contributed in a most helpful way. I am grateful to Kathleen Corrigan and Ioli Kalavrezou for valuable help provided during the preparation of the lecture version of this article, and to Eunice and Henry Maguire for interesting observations after its delivery. The building complex and other glories of the monastery were for the first time explored and systematically examined in this century, during the joint Princeton-Michigan-Alexandrian expeditions to Sinai in 1958, 1960, 1963, and 1965.3 Among the book treasures housed in the library, and represented by numerous copies Over the course of its long history the spiritual foundation, in addition to housing an active community of religious men, became a rich repository for works of Christian art, principally in the form of icons, books, and sacred vessels. Catherine, originally intended to double as a fortress at this strategic point in the region. Sinai and on the traditional site of the burning bush, one of his great and lasting monuments, the monastery of St. In the second half of the sixth century, when the Byzantine Empire reached its greatest extent, Justinian I ordered to be constructed, near the foot of Mt. ![]() Sinai that Moses later accepted into his hands the tablets of God’s law.2 The primordial contacts between heaven and earth were to dominate the image of the location-a holy ground to the Jew, Christian, and Muslim-for the rest of time. Sinai, that the future prophet came face to face with the divine and received the charge to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage 1 it was on the summit of Mt. It was here, near the elevation known as Mt. In the religious sphere the special mark of the place was its association with Moses and his meetings with God. He Sinai Peninsula, a bleak and barren wilderness jutting into the northern end of the Red Sea, acted like a magnet from Early Christian times, attracting to its solitude men and women earnestly engaged in the struggle to save their eternal souls. Printed in the United States of AmericaĮmbellishing the Steps: Elements of Presentation and Style in The Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus JOHN DUFFY ![]() Issue year 1999 © 1999 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University Washington, D.C. 53 Published byĭumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington, D.C.
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