The sisters of Sinai how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels
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 ancien...
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2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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