Bibliography

A very brief selection of books is given below. Some of these are easily available, but others out of print and much harder to come by. A fuller bibliography is available in our Guide to the South Sinai which is available to purchase from our office.

• Jarvis, Major C.H. Yesterday and Today in Sinai (Edinburgh and London, 1936) & Desert and Delta (London, 1938). Two very entertaining books, by a former British Governor of Sinai.
• Palmer, E. H. The Desert of the Exodus Vol 1 (Cambridge, 1871) Wonderful account from a British explorer with good descriptions of bedouin life of the period. Numerous facsimile reprints available
• Maitland, Sara A Book of Silence (Granta, 2009)
• Parker, D.C. Codex Sinaiticus: The Story of the World's Oldest Bible (The British Library Publishing Division; 1st edition 2010)
• Soskice, Janet Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels (Chatto & Windus, 2009) a vivid account of extraordinary story of Scottish sisters, Agnes and Margaret, who discovered early manuscripts at St Catherine's Monastery.
• Davies, G.I. The Way of the Wilderness: A Geographical Study of the Wilderness Itineraries in the Old Testament (The Society for Old Testament Study, Monograph Series No. 5 Cambridge University Press, 1979)
• Evans, Helen C. Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications, Yale University Press; illustrated edition 2004)
• Weitzmann, K. Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century v. 1: The Icons (Princeton University Press1992)
• Weitzmann, K. The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai: From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century v. 1: The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts (Princeton University Press, 1992)