The Sisters of Sinai 1 of 2

The Sisters of Sinai travel to St. Catherine's Monastery and find an ancient Syriac manuscript of the gospels. Why and how they did this is the focus of this episode.

Wikipedia on the Sisters of Sinai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_S...

Wikipedia on the Syriac Sinaiticus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_...

The Sinai Palimpsests Research Site (need to register): https://sinai.library.ucla.edu/

Janet Soskice biography of the twins: https://tinyurl.com/bdh867uc

A. Whigham Price biography of the twins: https://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Castleb...

A. Whigham Price biography of the twins at archive.org: https://tinyurl.com/bdezw5v7

Agnes Lewis' article in the Expository Times (1901) about her find of the Codex Syriacus (need access): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...

The Sisters took photographs of their travels of their visits to St. Catherine's and Jerusalem. View them here: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-WE...

Manuscript Hunters website on the twins: https://www.manuscripthunters.gwi.uni...

Rebecca Jefferson paper on a fresh perspective of the scholarship of the sisters: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/61089...

View many palimpsests here: http://sinaipalimpsests.org/galleries...

View pictures of St. Catherine's monastery here: http://sinaipalimpsests.org/galleries...

Read online How The Codex Was Found by Margaret Gibson: https://archive.org/details/howcodexw...

Listen to How The Codex Was Found (Librivox recording):    • How the Codex Was Found by Agnes Smith Lew...  

Read Agnes Smith Lewis travel diary online detailing their first trip to the Sinai (Eastern Pilgrims): https://archive.org/details/easternpi...

Read Agnes Smith Lewis (In The Shadow of Sinai) online: https://archive.org/details/inshadowo...

Read Agnes Smith Lewis book online about Light From the Four Gospels: https://archive.org/details/lightonfo...

Read Agnes Smith Lewis Magnum Opus on The Old Syriac Gospels: https://archive.org/details/oldsyriac...

Read Agnes Smith Lewis on her translation of the four Syriac gospels: https://archive.org/details/cu3192402...

Murray's Handbook on Traveling in Syria and Palestine: https://archive.org/details/ahandbook...

Wikipedia article on Robert Bensly (Syriac Scholar): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

Wikipedia article on F. C. Burkitt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...

Wikipedia article on James Rendell Harris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rend...

Sebastian Brock's Oxford faculty page: https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/people/seba...










Codex Syriacus
Sinaitic Palimpsest
The Sisters of Sinai
Ancient biblical manuscripts
Orthodox Christianity
Coptic Christianity
Jerusalem
Egypt
Oldest Bible manuscript
New Testament manuscripts
Greek Bible manuscript
Syriac manuscripts
Biblical archaeology
History of the Bible
Christian scriptures
Alexandrian text-type
Codex Sinaiticus discovery
Constantin von Tischendorf
Fourth-century manuscript
Bible preservation
Septuagint
Sinai Monastery
Early Christian writings
Textual criticism
Bible translation history
James Rendell Harris
F. C. Burkitt
Codex Sinaiticus significance
Constantine Tischendorf
Biblical manuscripts
Codex Sinaiticus
New Testament manuscripts
Ancient texts
Biblical scholarship
Textual criticism
Tischendorf discoveries
Christian history
Manuscript preservation
Codex Vaticanus
Sinaitic Manuscript
Bible translation history
Early Christianity
Greek manuscripts
19th-century scholars
St. Catherine's Monastery
Manuscript collection
Codex Alexandrinus
Constantine Tischendorf legacy