The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels /

The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels /

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Main Author: Soskice, Janet Martin (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York : [Alfred A. Knopf], 2009.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Subjects:

Lewis, Agnes Smith, > 1843-1926.
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, > 1843-1920.
Bible. > Gospels. > Syriac. > Codex palimpsestus Sinaiticus.
New Testament scholars > Great Britain > Biography.
Church history > 20th century.
Sinai, Mount (Egypt) > Description and travel.

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Call Number: BS2351 .A1 S67 2009

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264 1 |a New York :  |b [Alfred A. Knopf],  |c 2009. 
300 |a xii, 316 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
500 |a "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. 
500 |a "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form as Sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers found the hidden Gospels by Chatto & Windus ... London" --T.p. verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-303) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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