Sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers found the hidden gospels

1. Verfasser: Soskice, Janet Martin
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : Chatto & Windus, 2009.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 338 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780701173418
Schlagworte:
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, > 1843-1920.
Lewis, Agnes Smith, > 1843-1926.
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop.
Lewis, Agnes Smith.
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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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.

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