The sisters of Sinai
Subtitle: how two lady adventurers discovered the Lost Gospels
By: by Janet Soskice.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781400041336
Subjects: Lewis, Agnes Smith, -- 1843-1926; Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, -- 1843-1920; Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels. -- Versions -- Codex palimpsestus Sinaiticus; New Testament scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography; Churchn history -- 20th century; Sinai, Mount (Egypt) -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography
Notes: "A Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Cambridge, 13 April 1893; title: The birth and upbringing of lady Bible hunters; title: The journey to the  Nile; title: The boat; title: The perfect dragoman; title: The search for the perfect mate; title: Greece; title: The estate of marriage; title: The Cambridge antiquarian; title: Heresy and mortality; title: Sinai and Von Tischendorf; title: The perils of Bible-hunting; title: The story Von Tischendorf did not tell; title: Setting out for Sinai; title: The treasure in the dark closet; title: The Cambridge party; title: The disjoint expedition; title: The final falling-out; title: The Devilish Press and the Highland Regiment; title: The Cambridge cold shoulder; title: A lightening course in text scholarship; title: In the company of orientalists; title: Burying the hatchet; title: Keepers of manuscripts; title: Solomon Schechter and the Cairo Genizah; title: In Cairo with Schechter; title: Castelbrae; title: The college's opening; title: The active life; title: The darkening to war; title: Palimpsest.