Robert Hoyland. "Forgotten Papyri of the Judaean Desert: The Khirbet Mird Corpus from Late Antiquity to Early Islam." Israel Exploration Journal, 74.1 (2024).

This article provides a detailed overview of the corpus of papyri discovered in the 1950s in a cave by the Monastery of Kastellion, known in Arabic as Khirbet Mird, in the Judean Desert between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea. The papyri are written in Greek, Aramaic, and Arabic, and they span the Late Antique and early Islamic periods (ca 500-800 CE). The article also attempts to explain why Christian and Muslim documents ended up in the same collection and to illustrate how these texts might contribute to our knowledge about the Monastery of Kastellion and our understanding of the administration of early Islamic Palestine. Three documents are edited for the first time in order to demonstrate the diversity of this corpus.