Overview
In the Shadow of Sinai: A Story of Travel and Research from 1895 to 1897, and How the Codex was Found: A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai from Mrs Lewiss Journals, 18921893 published here in a new one-volume edition were originally published in the late 1890s, to great acclaim. Taught the rudiments of photography, and having studied various languages, including Aramaic, they organized a caravan from Cairo to the Monastery of St. Catherine, at the foot of Mt Sinai. In the library they discovered, and photographed, most of the text of the hitherto undiscovered Syriac version of the Four Gospels, in a fourth-century palimpsest. Their work was widely acknowledged, and they were popular members of the Cambridge set of this period. For the Scholar, this book is a welcome reprint of two worthy texts, with their focus on the vagaries and excitement of historical, biblical research. For the Traveller, it is a record of the hardships and rewards of travel one hundred years ago. And for the Christian, there lies within the discovery of a very remarkable variant of the reported spoken word of Jesus Christ (Matthew xii:36).
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Author: Agnes Smith Lewis ,
Margaret Dunlop Gibson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 21.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 13.50cm
Weight: 0.273kg
ISBN: 9781898595236
ISBN 10: 1898595232
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 01 June 1999
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
It is with the observant eye...that these fascinating stories of their travels and the discovery of the Syriac manuscript of the Gospels are told. Better than many a novel... -- The Expository Times of In The Shadow of Sinai. Delightful... such accounts remain period pieces to attitudes, observations, labors, and ventures a century past. Historians of feminism might enjoy rediscovering these Victorian scholarly women. -- Choice
It is with the observant eye...that these fascinating stories of their travels and the discovery of the Syriac manuscript of the Gospels are told. Better than many a novel... -- The Expository Times of In The Shadow of Sinai. Delightful... such accounts remain period pieces to attitudes, observations, labors, and ventures a century past. Historians of feminism might enjoy rediscovering these Victorian scholarly women. -- Choice BBC 2: Bible Hunters follow in the footsteps of the Scottish sisters Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson with In the Shadow of Sinai (published by The Alpha Press).
