Bible Hunter
Subtitle: Searching for the Original New Testament
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781908323477
Subjects: Saint catherine (monastery : mount sinai); Bible, history
Description: "In 1844, academic and fundamentalist Christian Constantin Tischendorf, who was driven by his obsession with the origins of the Bible to a remote monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, discovered the manuscript in a basket said to have been discarded by the monks ... Part travelogue, part historical study and part critique, The Bible hunter tells of the author's trip to Sinai, the history of the Bible and early Church and the lives and liturgies of the monks of St. Catherine's Monastery"--Jacket flap.