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Title:
The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the Lost Gospels
Author:
Soskice, Janet Martin.
ISBN:
9781400041336
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York :

Alfred A. Knopf,

2009.
Physical Description:
xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"A Borzoi book."
Contents:
Introduction: Cambridge, 13 April 1893 -- The birth and upbringing of 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 lightening 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 -- Castelbrae -- The college's opening -- The active life -- The darkening to war -- Palimpsest.
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