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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
The Sisters of Sinai How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Author: Janet Soskice
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins, made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine?s monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a palimpsest: beneath a life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the earliest known copies of the Gospels, written in ancient Syriac, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400041336
ISBN-10: 1400041333
Publication Date: 8/18/2009
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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