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20231122135448.0 |
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101124s2010 us ab b 001 0ceng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400034741 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400041336 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400041336 |
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rda |
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| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
225.0922 |
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J A N |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Soskice, Janet Martin. |
| 245 11 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The sisters of Sinai : |
| Remainder of title |
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Janet Soskice. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Vintage Books Edition. |
| 264 31 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Alfred a. Knopf, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 316 pages. |
| 336 ## - Content Type |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
| 337 ## - Media Type |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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n |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form as Sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers found the hidden Gospels by Chatto & Windus ... London"--T.p. verso. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Cambridge, 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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: one of the earliest known copies of the Gospels, a version in ancient Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus. This is the account of how two middle-aged ladies without university degrees uncovered and translated this text, bringing a treasure to world attention. This quintessentially Victorian adventure is partly a physical journey: when Westerners generally feared to tread in the region, the sisters Smith traversed the Middle East. It is also a journey of the mind: in an era when new discoveries in science and archaeology were rewriting the accepted understanding of the Bible's origins as well as those of humankind, a great contribution to knowledge was made by two whose only natural advantage was an astonishing gift for languages--From publisher description. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lewis, Agnes Smith, |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, |
| 630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Bible. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
New Testament scholars |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Church history |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Religion |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Sinai, Mount (Egypt) |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
