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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Soskice, Janet Martin.     Subjects     Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926.     Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920.     Bible. Gospels. Syriac. Codex palimpsestus Sinaiticus.     New Testament scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Christianity -- 20th century.     Sinai, Mount (Egypt) -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Soskice, Janet Martin.       by title:      The sisters of Sinai...         MARC Display

The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels / Janet Soskice. by Soskice, Janet Martin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Subjects Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926.   Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920.   Bible. Gospels. Syriac. Codex palimpsestus Sinaiticus.   New Testament scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Christianity -- 20th century.   Sinai, Mount (Egypt) -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781400041336 : 1400041333 Description:  xii, 316 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st American ed. Contents:  Cambridge, 13 April 1893 -- The birth and upbringing of the lady Bible-hunters -- The journey to the Nile -- The boat -- The perfect dragoman -- The search for the perfect mate -- Greece -- The estate of marriage -- The Cambridge antiquarian -- Heresy and mortality -- Sinai and von Tischendorf -- The perils of Bible-hunting -- The story von Tischendorf did not tell -- Setting out for Sinai -- The treasure in the dark closet -- The Cambridge party -- The disjoint expedition -- The final falling-out -- The devilish press and the Highland Regiment -- The Cambridge cold shoulder -- A lightning course in text scholarship -- In the company of orientalists -- Burying the hatchet -- Keepers of manuscripts -- Solomon Schechter and the Cairo Genizah -- In Cairo with Schechter -- Castlebrae -- The college's opening -- To the monasteries of the Nitrian Desert -- The active life -- The darkening to war -- Palimpsest. Requests:  0 Summary:  In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: one of the earliest known copies of the Gospels, a version in ancient Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus. This is the account of how two middle-aged ladies without university degrees uncovered and translated this text, bringing a treasure to world attention. This quintessentially Victorian adventure is partly a physical journey: when Westerners generally feared to tread in the region, the sisters Smith traversed the Middle East. It is also a journey of the mind: in an era when new discoveries in science and archaeology were rewriting the accepted understanding of the Bible's origins as well as those of humankind, a great contribution to knowledge was made by two whose only natural advantage was an astonishing gift for languages--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 225.0922 So Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 225.0922 Soskice Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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