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Soskice, Janet Martin.
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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.
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The sisters of Sinai...
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The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels / Janet Soskice.
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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.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
225.0922 So
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225.0922 Soskice
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