An edition of The Sisters of Sinai
(2009)
The sisters of Sinai
how two lady adventurers discovered the Lost Gospels
1st American ed.
by Janet Martin Soskice
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Written about Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, 50ish twin sisters who travelled to Sinai around 1892 to visit the Convent of Saint Catherine to explore the library there, where they made a stunning discovery that changed the world's perception of the Gospels. You might also like to read Gibson's account, How the Codex Was Found.
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twins, sisters, non-fiction, explorers, historians, Syriac, Ancient Greek, palimpsests, palimpsest, The Gospels, monks, Convent of Saint Catherine, History, Nonfiction, Description and travel, Bible, New Testament scholars, Biography, Church history, Smith, margaret chase, 1897-1995, Scholars, Egypt, description and travel, Sinai (egypt), Bible, introductions, n. t. gospels, Travel, New York Times reviewed, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. gospels, Church history, 20th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels
2010, Vintage Books
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Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
2010, Penguin Random House
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The Sisters of Sinai
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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The sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers discovered the Lost Gospels
2009, Alfred A. Knopf
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Cambridge, 13 April 1893
The birth and upbringing of 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 lightening 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
Castelbrae
The college's opening
The active life
The darkening to war
Palimpsest.
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"A Borzoi book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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