Agnes Smith Lewis

In the Shadow of Sinai

A Story of Travel and Research from 1895 to 1897

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1898 work follows the later visits to St Catherine's Monastery by Scottish explorers and biblical scholars Gibson and Lewis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781108043380
• ISBN-10: 1108043380
• Artikelnr.: 35063494

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Preparations
2. On the track of the Israelites
3. Our stay at the convent
4. The palimpsest
5. Prayers for rain
6. Visit to Ma'lula
7. A leaf of the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus
8. A fourth visit to Sinai
9. Our fourth stay at the convent
10. Homewards
11. Another 'saying of Jesus'.