The development of her medieval cult was spurred by the reported rediscovery of her body around the year 800 at Mount Sinai, with hair still growing and a constant stream of healing oil emitting from her body.

The elapsed time from the creation, up to Moses receiving the scriptures upon Sinai during the Exodus, is calculated as fifty Jubilees, less the 40 years still to be spent wandering in the desert before entering Canaan — or 2, 410 years.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

Also, many Nahal-founded settlements are still thriving today in the Galilee, the Negev, and the West Bank ( as well as formerly in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip ).

During that period, Georgian monasteries were founded outside the country, most notably on Mount Sinai, Mount Athos ( the Iviron monastery, where the Theotokos Iverskaya icon is still located ), and in Palestine.

But an icon of the late 11th century in Sinai shows him as before, still a civilian.

Following the Battle of Megiddo, Deraa was captured on 27 September, Damascus on 1 October and operations at Haritan, north of Aleppo, were still in progress when the Armistice of Mudros was signed ending the Final Offensive of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.

The monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, which goes back to the early days of monasticism, had a great fame and is still occupied by monks.

The icon in its current state seems to be a work of the thirteenth century ( as witnessed by the features of the faces ), but other layers visible under the top one suggest it is a repainting of a much earlier piece ; especially revealing is the modeling of Child's right hand in the first layer, which can be compared to other early Christian icons that display ' Pompeian ' illusionistic qualities The areas of linear stylization, such as Christ's garment which is rendered in golden hatching producing a flat effect, seem to go back to the 8th century, and can be compared with a very early icon of Elijah from Sinai.

For instance, Orthodox Judaism holds that the Torah was received from God on biblical Mount Sinai, and Muslims consider the Qur ' an to have been revealed word by word and letter by letter.

A letter to the monks of Sinai is also contained in E. Renaudot's Genadii patriarchae Constantinopolitani homiliae de sacramento eucharistiae ( Paris, 1709 ).

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.

* 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

The current editors of the Annals of Mathematics are Jean Bourgain ( Institute for Advanced Study ), David Gabai, Nick Katz, Peter Sarnak, Yakov Sinai, and Gang Tian ( all from Princeton University ).

Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among them in the sanctuary.

God orders Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, to number those able to bear arms — of all the men " from twenty years old and upward ," and to appoint princes over each tribe.

In Egypt the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and Australian Light Horse of Anzac Mounted Division operating as mounted infantry, drove German and Ottoman forces back from Romani to Magdhaba and Rafa and out of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsular in 1916.

As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

Also included are the nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, the eight governorates of Upper Egypt along the Nile River south from Cairo to Aswan, and the five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile.

The northern third of Sinai is a flat, sandy coastal plain, which extends from the Suez Canal into the Gaza Strip and Israel.

On this plan, the first part tells of God's rescue of his people from Egypt and their journey under his care to Sinai ( chapters 1-19 ) and the second tells of the covenant between them ( chapters 20-40 ).

Biblical scholars describe the Bible's theologically-motivated history writing as " salvation history ", meaning a history of God's saving actions that give identity to Israel-the promise of offspring and land to the ancestors, the exodus from Egypt ( in which God saves Israel from slavery ), the wilderness wandering, the revelation at Sinai, and the hope for the future life in the promised land.

The theophany in Exodus begins " the third day " from their arrival at Sinai in chapter 19: Yahweh and the people meet at the mountain, God appears in the storm and converses with Moses, giving him the Ten Commandments while the people listen.

Among other things, the treaty provided for the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War, to the 1906 international border.

It stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert.

The British forces were retired from the conflict and Israel, having seized interests in the Sinai region, withdrew soon leaving France alone in Egypt.

Modern historians believe that it is decidedly erroneous to consider the middot as traditional from the time of Moses on Sinai.

The eastern Mediterranean seaboard – the Levant – stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert.

The first of the Ten Commandments can be interpreted to forbid the Children of Israel from worshiping any other god but the one true God who had revealed himself at Mount Sinai and given them the Torah, however it can also be read as henotheistic, since it states that they should have " no other gods before me.

Although there are earlier records of their use, no panel icons earlier than the few from the 6th century preserved at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai survive.

Settlements also existed in the Sinai and Gaza Strip until Israel evacuated the Sinai settlements following the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement and unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

* The Codex Sinaiticus is found by Constantin von Tischendorf on his third visit to Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

He had a share in exposing the frauds of Constantine Simonides, who had asserted that the Codex Sinaiticus brought by Tischendorf from the Greek monastery of Mount Sinai was a modern forgery of which he was himself the author.

Led by their prophet Moses they journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan ( the " Promised Land ") in return for their faithfulness.

It is reported that, on the return journey, Luís de Menezes engineered a mutiny and seized control of the Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai, and proceeded to turn to a piratical career.

Dwight Eisenhower publicly condemned it and supported United Nations resolutions demanding withdrawal, Israel's return to the 1949 armistice lines and for a United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) to be stationed in the Sinai.

Intervention by the United States and the United Nations forced the British and French to back down and Israel to withdraw from Sinai in return for promises of free navigation through the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

According to the 1975 Sinai Interim Agreement signed by the United States and Israel as a precondition for Israel's return of the Sinai Peninsula and its associated oil reserves to Egypt, in an emergency the U. S. is obligated to make oil available for sale to Israel for up to 5 years.

Ultimately, Israel would return Sinai to Egypt after the two nations signed a peace treaty.

Israel agreed to withdraw its armed forces from the Sinai, evacuate its 4, 500 civilian inhabitants, and restore it to Egypt in return for normal diplomatic relations with Egypt, guarantees of freedom of passage through the Suez Canal and other nearby waterways ( such as the Straits of Tiran ), and a restriction on the forces Egypt could place on the Sinai peninsula, especially within 20 – 40 km from Israel.

For instance, in 1979, Likud Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, signed the Camp David Accords with Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, which returned the Sinai Peninsula ( occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 ) to Egypt in return for peace between the two countries.

In 1979 the Egypt – Israel Peace Treaty was signed, when Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat agreed on peace in return for Israel giving the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

To provide Israel with more incentive to negotiate with Egypt and return the Sinai to it, and also because the Soviets had refused Sadat ’ s requests for more military support, Sadat expelled the Soviet military advisers from Egypt and proceeded to bolster his army for a renewed confrontation with Israel.

Yosef first applied the Pikuach Nefesh principle to Israel's conflicts with its neighbors in 1979, when he ruled that this argument granted Israel authority to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

About 1660 he was in Constantinople on business connected with his monastery, and on his return to Sinai was chosen abbot.

As Moses had broken the tablets, the Lord instructed him to return to Mount Sinai ( Exodus 34: 2 ) and receive a replacement.

Prince ( Spătarul ) Mihail Cantacuzino founded the monastery upon his return from a pilgrimage to Mount Sinai.

The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital ’ s ( Baltimore ) People Encouraging People ( a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community ) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.

By 1969, Nasser had formed an alliance with Jordan's King Hussein and started to move towards cementing peace with Israel in exchange for the return of Sinai Peninsula and the formation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

* Australians at War Government article-Yasser Arafat's 1994 return to the Gaza Strip via Sinai after his 1960s expulsion from the region

The speaker in the poems plans to visit Sinai in order to return the Ten Commandments to God, since so many peoples of the world have relegated them to the walls of their public buildings in order to lie to themselves about their own moral rot.

The Book of Exodus tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where God reveals himself and offers them a Covenant: they are to keep his torah ( i. e. law, instruction ), and in return he will be their god and give them the land of Canaan.

After the October War, the Camp David Accord in 1978 Israel agreed to return Sinai to Egypt peacefully, and later the two countries signed a peace treaty.