Olives, Mount of

Aaron's third son who succeeded him as high priest on Mount Hor, founding the line that runs to Phinehas and Zadok.

Of Judah, one of the twelve spies — the man of another spirit who wholly followed Jehovah; one of only two of the census generation to enter the land, still claiming his…

The covenant and law-giving at Mount Sinai following the Exodus; Israel receives the Ten Commandments and the broader Torah.

Ammonas was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, after Anthony withdrew to the Inner Mountain by the Red Sea, his successor at Pispir on the Nile. He had already spent fourteen…

Procopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…

Isaac was born in Beth Qatraye, the Christian region along the western shore of the Persian Gulf, in what is now Qatar. He became a monk young. Around 676 the East Syriac…

Cyril was born about 313 and became bishop of Jerusalem around 350. He held the see, off and on, for thirty-five years — off and on because he was driven out of it three times…

Syncletica was born at Alexandria, probably late in the third century, to Macedonian parents who had settled in Egypt and grown rich. She died about 350, in her eighties. Her…