In the shadow of Sinai
stories of travel and biblical research
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Contributions
- Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920. - Contributor
- Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926. - Contributor
Publication
1999 - Alpha Press, Brighton, England
Language
English
Word Count
48,500 words, Guess
Page Count
194 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18306452M
- ISBN-101898595232
- OCLC Control Number40433289
- OCLC Control Number504702033
- OCLC Control Numberinshadowofsinais0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98053888
- Goodreads755019
- LibraryThing2444754
Classifications
- DDC220/.0953/1
- LCCBS2351.A1 I5 1999
Alternate Titles
- How the codex was found
Description
"Both books, published here together for the first time, were written in the late 1890s. The two sisters were quintessential Victorian characters - they carved out for themselves a reputation for religious scholarship and adventure. Taught the rudiments of photography, and having studied various languages, including Aramaic, they organized a caravan from Cairo to the Monastery of St. Catherine, at the foot of Mt. Sinai. In the library they discovered, and photographed, most of the text of the hitherto undiscovered Syriac version of the Four Gospels, in a fourth-century palimpsest."--BOOK JACKET. "For the Scholar, this book is a welcome reprint of two worthy texts, with their focus on the vagaries and excitement of historical, biblical research. For the traveller, it is a record of the hardships and rewards of travel one hundred years ago. And for the Christian, there lies within the discovery of a very remarkable variant of the reported spoken word of Jesus Christ."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Diaries.
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