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Hirschfeld, “The Cave Church at Khirbet ed-Deir,” in Y. Tsafrir, Ancient Churches Revealed, pp. 244–259.

Theodorus Petraeus, Vita sancti Theodosii, ed. H. Usener (Leipzig, 1890).

Joseph Patrich, The Monastic Institutions of Saint Sabas—An Archaeological-Historical Research, Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, 1987; in Hebrew).

Kyrillos von Skythopolis, ed. E. Schwartz (Leipzig, 1939).

Hirschfeld, The Judean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period—Their Development and Internal Organization in the Light of Archaeological Research, Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, 1987; in Hebrew).

We treat coenobium, unlike laura, as a foreign word because laura appears in most English dictionaries, although it is not always correctly defined. Coenobium does not appear in most English dictionaries, even unabridged dictionaries. It appears in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, but the definition does not include a type of monastery.

See Yizhar Hirschfeld, The Judean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1992). See also Hirschfeld, “List of the Byzantine Monasteries in the Judean Desert,” in G. C. Bottini et al. (eds.), Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land—New Discoveries (Jerusalem, 1990), pp. 1–90; and Hirschfeld, “Monasteries and Churches in the Judean Desert in the Byzantine Period,” in Yoram Tsafrir, ed., Ancient Churches Revealed (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993), pp. 149–154.

Derwas J. Chitty, The Desert a City—An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire (Oxford, 1966).

Astour, “Chedorlaomer,” p. 894; see also John A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158–722 B.C. (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1968), pp. 19, 80–81.