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The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels
Verfasst von:
Soskice, Janet Martin
2009
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| Einrichtung: | Kvinnsam | Göteborg |
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| Verfasst von: | Soskice, Janet Martin |
| Ausgabe: | 1st American ed |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Maße: | 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1400041333 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| 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 ancient Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus. This is the account of how two middle-aged ladies without university degrees uncovered and translated this text, bringing a treasure to world attention. This quintessentially Victorian adventure is partly a physical journey: when Westerners generally feared to tread in the region, the sisters Smith traversed the Middle East. It is also a journey of the mind: in an era when new discoveries in science and archaeology were rewriting the accepted understanding of the Bible's origins as well as those of humankind, a great contribution to knowledge was made by two whose only natural advantage was an astonishing gift for languages--From publisher description. | |
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"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form as Sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers found the hidden Gospels by Chatto & Windus ... London"--T.p. verso. |
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