Resurrecting Mitzpe Shivta: Connections between monasticism and economy in the Late Antique Negev Desert

Sina Lehnig; Gil Gambash; Guy Bar-Oz

doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.158

Resurrecting Mitzpe Shivta: Connections between monasticism and economy in the Late Antique Negev Desert

Sina Lehnig, Gil Gambash, Guy Bar-Oz

University of Haifa

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Abstract

Occupation of Mitzpe Shivta in the Negev Desert coincided with times of economic and social upheaval and counterculture movements during the sixth and seventh centuries AD. Inscriptions and symbols found in rock-hewn rooms in the region indicate that while the agricultural economy declined during the late Byzantine period, pilgrimage and monasticism prospered.

Original language	American English
Article number	e34
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	97
Issue number	396
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.158
State	Published - 1 Dec 2023

Keywords

agriculture
epigraphic survey
pilgrimage
radiocarbon dating
rock-cut rooms

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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