Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes.
Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson -- Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews -- The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Father Justin Sinaites -- Christian pilgrimage to Sinai until the late fifteenth century / David Jacoby -- Visual piety and institutional identity at Sinai / Kristen M. Collins -- Holy image : catalogue numbers 1-19 -- Holy space : catalogue numbers 20-41 -- Holy site : catalogue numbers 42-61