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The Sisters of Sinai

By Janet Soskice

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2009
ISBN
9780307272348, 2009011098
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3135386 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-28 20:39:29
BIO022000BIO023000Biography & AutobiographyNonfictionTravelTRV001000

Description

Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without university degrees or formal language training, the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac, the language that Jesus spoke. In an era when most Westerners—male or female—feared to tread in the Middle East, they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels, unscrupulous dragomen, and suspicious monks to become unsung heroines in the continuing effort to discover the Bible as originally written.

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