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St. George Monastery - Bird's Eye View

The Byzantine period, which began in the fourth century with the beginning of the adoption of the Christian religion by the Roman Empire, was the prosperity days of the monasteries of the Judean Desert. The monasteries housed monks who came from all over the Byzantine Empire, and mainly from the western region of Turkey and from Greece. For them the Judean Desert was a region of land where exemplary figures from the past lived: the prophets of Israel and figures who influenced the creation of the Christian religion such as John the Baptist and Jesus. The magnificent and desolate landscapes of the desert allowed the monks to withdraw from the inhabited world and establish their new world here. The large number of monasteries here, their proximity to Jerusalem and the holy places, and the monks' involvement in church affairs gave the Judean Desert monasteries a privileged position, and from the fifth century it was one of the most important centers of monasticism in the Byzantine Empire. But the process of growth that continued in the sixth and early seventh centuries was halted by the Persian invasion to the land of Israel in 614, followed immediately by the Arab/Muslem conquest in 638. If the extent of the damage to the monks and monasteries after the Persian conquest was limited, the consequences of the Muslim conquest were severe. Despite the tolerance of the new government, the separation from the centers of the Byzantine Empire and the decline in the flow of pilgrims, severely damaged the monasteries. Archaeological remains indicate that most of the monasteries in the Judean Desert were abandoned in the second half of the seventh century or at the beginning of the eighth century. For more information in English visit: https://historicalsitesinisrael.com/e... For more information in Hebrew visit: https://historicalsitesinisrael.com/%... Yehuda Holtzman