040) Deir Ḥajla/Deir Mar Gerasimus (St. Gerasimus’ Monastery)
[PADIS code 0044]
Arabic: (دير حجلة (دير القديس جيراسيميوس
Site ancient name: Laura of Gerasimus (Féderlin 1903, 134, 148; Hirschfeld 1990, 18, 26, site n. 7 = Sion's site M [Sion 1996, 248]).
Site location: Lat. +31° 49' 12.16" N; Long. +35° 30' 6.14" E.
Site extension: 5 dunams.
State of preservation: preserved (restorations needed).
Occupational periods: Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman.
Plates: I, III, XXXVII-XXXVIII.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (chapel, monastic cells).
Funerary architecture: cave (St. Gerasimus' tomb ?).
Bibliography: Guérin 1874, 53-56; Marti 1880, 12-13; Conder - Kitchener 1883, 179, 181, 192-198; Vailhé 1898, 108-112, 117; Féderlin 1903, 120, 134, 148, 170; Augustinović 1951, 109-110, 197-198; Hirschfeld 1988-1989, 100-101; 1990, 18-19, 26, site n. 7, figs. 21-22; 1991, 419-430; 1992, 28, 293-294; Sion 1996, 248, 257-259, site M, fig. 6; Yahya 2007, 24.
Crusader Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (chapel, monastic cells).
Funerary architecture: cave (St. Gerasimus' tomb ?).
Material culture: mosaic.
Bibliography: Conder - Kitchener 1883, 192-198; Augustinović 1951, 109-110, 197-198; Yahya 2007, 24.
Ottoman Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (monastic cells).
Bibliography: Hirschfeld 1990, 18; Sion 1996, 259-262.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 109-110, 197-198). |
| Conder, C.R. - Kitchener, H.H. | |
| 1883 | The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Volume III. Sheets XVII-XXVI. Judaea, London 1883 (in particular pp. 179, 181, 192-198). |
| Féderlin, J.L. | |
| 1903 | "Recherches sur les laures et monastères de la plaine du Jourdain et du désert de Jérusalem", in La Terre Sainte 20 (1903), pp. 117-331 (in particular pp. 120, 134, 148). |
| Guérin, V. | |
| 1874 | Description géographique, historique et archéologique de la Palestine I: Samaria, Paris 1874 (in particular pp. 53-56). |
| Hirschfeld, Y. | |
| 1988-1989 | "Judean Desert and Samaria, Survey of Monasteries - 1987", in Excavations and Surveys in Israel 7-8 (1988-1989), pp. 95-104. |
| 1990 | "List of the Byzantine Monasteries in the Judean Desert", in G.C. Bottini - L. Di Segni - E. Alliata (eds.), Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land - New Discoveries. Essays in Honour of Virgilio C. Corbo,OFM (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior 36), Jerusalem 1990, pp. 1-90 (in particular pp. 18-19, 26, site n. 7, figs. 21-22). |
| 1991 | "Gerasimus and his Laura in the Jordan Valley", in Revue Biblique 98 (1991), pp. 419-430. |
| 1992 | The Judean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period, New Haven - London 1992 (in particular pp. 28, 293-294). |
| Marti, K. | |
| 1880 | "Mittheilungen von Barauth C. Schick in Jerusalem über die alten Lauren und Klöster in der Wüste Juda", in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 3 (1880), pp. 1-43 (in particular pp. 12-13). |
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular pp. 248, 257-262, site M, fig. 6). |
| Vailhe, S. | |
| 1898 | "Les Laures de Sainte Gérasime et de Calamon", in Échos d'Orient 1898, pp. 106-119 (in particular pp. 108-112, 117). |
| Yahya, A. | |
| 2007 | PACE Tourguide of Jericho & Vicinity. Historical, Archaeological and Religious Sites, Ramallah 2007 (in particular p. 24). |