In the Shadow of Sinai: Stories of Travel and Biblical Research (The Canada Blanch / Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain) - Softcover

Lewis, Agnes Smith

 
9781898595236: In the Shadow of Sinai: Stories of Travel and Biblical Research (The Canada Blanch / Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)

Synopsis

IN THE SHADOW OF SINAI: A STORY OF TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FROM 1895-1897 and HOW THE CODEX WAS FOUND: A NARRATIVE OF TWO VISITS TO SINAI: FROM MRS LEWIS'S JOURNALS, 1892-1893―published here in a new one-volume edition―were originally published in the late 1890's, to great acclaim. They are not only interesting and witty travelogues, but they are also a superb record of the discovery of the Syriac palimpsest, and a narrative of the journeys and adventures surrounding that research. The text describes a very remarkable variant of the reported spoken word of Jesus Christ (Matthew xii: 36), which will be of interest to all Christians and scholars.

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Agnes Smith Lewis

Review

"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

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