“Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali welcomes Professor Efstathios Lianos-Liantis, Vice-President and Associate Professor at the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Athens, specialising in the Geopolitics of Religion and Religious Diplomacy.
The guest shares with listeners the history of the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, beginning with the era of Yahweh and Moses and tracing its course through to the present day.
He speaks about the age of Justinian, when the Basilica of the Transfiguration was founded on Mount Sinai, centred on the three key figures of the Sinaitic Tradition – Jesus Christ, Moses and Elijah. He also discusses the period of the Prophet Muhammad, the Crusades, and Saint Catherine herself, whose name the Monastery has borne since the 12th century.
Professor Lianos-Liantis “guides” us through the interior of the Monastery, describing its precious relics as well as the Codex Sinaiticus, much of which is today preserved in the British Library.
He also speaks about the region’s geopolitical and geostrategic significance and about the Monastery’s contemporary condition.
Produced and presented by Stavroula Karali