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Our Journey to Sinai - A Visit to the Convent of St Catarina (Paperback)
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Our Journey to Sinai - A Visit to the Convent of St Catarina (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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First published in 1896, this work by Agnes Bensley (d. 1900), wife
of the Orientalist and biblical scholar Robert Bensly (1831 93),
describes the journey undertaken by a party of scholars to St
Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in 1893. In the previous year,
sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson had discovered
the Sinai Palimpsest, the earliest-known Syriac version of the
Gospels. The purpose of the Bensly's mission was to aid them in
transcribing and deciphering the Palimpsest. Beginning with the
party's arrival in Cairo, the book describes the preparation for
the trip, their journey across the desert, and life in the
monastery. However, relations between the members of the party
deteriorated; Gibson and Lewis wrote their own accounts of the
expedition (also available in this series), and Mrs Bensly's
narrative is defensive of the role of her husband, who died days
after their return to England.
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