The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Janet Soskice$15.26
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/24/2010
ISBN: 9781400034741
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.20w x 0.74d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 08/20/2010 pg. 128
New York Times Book Review 09/12/2010 pg. 32