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The Sisters of Sinai

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Random House Digital, Inc., Aug 18, 2009 - History - 304 pages

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Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without university degrees or formal language training, the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac, the language that Jesus spoke. In an era when most Westerners—male or female—feared to tread in the Middle East, they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels, unscrupulous dragomen, and suspicious monks to become unsung heroines in the continuing effort to discover the Bible as originally written.




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Review: The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

User Review  - Mary - Goodreads

The Sisters of the Sinai is a biography of two very remarkable twin sisters whose father died and left them lots of money. Agnes and Margret were from Scotland and did not believe in spending money on ... Read full review

Review: The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

User Review  - Carol Muth - Goodreads

I loved this biography of the Scottish twins who made huge breakthroughs in Biblical scholarship, even though they were considered to be outsiders by most of the Cambridge scholars, who were all male ... Read full review

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Contents

The Cambridge Cold Shoulder
185
A Lightning Course in Text Scholarship
191
In the Company ot Orientalists
200
2j Burying the Hatchet
204
Keepers of Manuscripts
214
Solomon Schcchtcr and the Cairo Gcnizab
220
In Cairo with Schcchtcr
230
Castlebrae
238

The Estate of Marriage
64
The Cambridge Antiquarian
78
Heresy and Mortality
91
Sinai and von Tischendorf
99
The Perils of BibleHunting
103
j The Story von Tischendorf Did Not Tell
109
Setting Out for Sinai
114
The Treasure in the Dark Closet
122
The Cambridge Party 154
134
The Disjoint Expedition
143
The Final FallingOut
167
The Devilish Press and the Highland Regiment
174
The Colleges Opening
248
To the Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert
251
The Active Life
255
The Darkening to War
264
j2 Palimpsest
271
78
278
Acknowledgements
281
A Note on Sources
282
Notes 285
283
Select Bibliography 301
300
Index
305
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About the author (2009)

Janet Soskice grew up in western Canada and has lived for some years in England, where she is Professor in Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. She lectures around the world and is a frequent contributor to radio and television programs.




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