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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v38.i33.records.utf8:32022480:2991
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 02991cam a22004337a 4500
001 2010294236
003 DLC
005 20100813124817.0
008 100706s2009 enkab b 001 0 eng
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100 1 $aSoskice, Janet Martin.
245 10 $aSisters of Sinai :$bhow two lady adventurers found the hidden gospels /$cJanet Soskice.
260 $aLondon :$bChatto & Windus,$c2009.
300 $axiii, 338 p. :$bill., map ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [324]-328) and index.
505 0 $aCambridge, 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.
520 8 $aIn 1892, two adventurous sisters made one of the most important religious finds of the century. This title uses the story of the Smith sisters to take the reader on a 19th century journey. It traces the footsteps of these sisters as they voyage to Egypt, Sinai and beyond, clutching their Murray's guidebook.
600 10 $aLewis, Agnes Smith,$d1843-1926.
600 10 $aGibson, Margaret Dunlop,$d1843-1920.
650 0 $aNew Testament scholars$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
630 00 $aBible.$pN.T.$pGospels.$lSyriac.$sCodex palimpsestus Sinaiticus.
651 0 $aSinai, Mount (Egypt)$xDescription and travel.
650 00 $aChurch history$y20th century.
600 17 $aGibson, Margaret Dunlop.$2swd
600 17 $aLewis, Agnes Smith.$2swd
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