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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
THEOLOGY PUBLIC SERIES
"SISTERS OF SINAI"
BY
PROFESSOR JANET SOSKICE
IN
THE JAMES CALLAGHAN LECTURE THEATRE
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
AT
7.00p.m.
ON
FRIDAY, 22nd OCTOBER 2010
EVERYONE WELCOME
ADMISSION FREE
Janet Martin Soskice is a Catholic. She grew up in Canada and has lived for some years in England. She is Professor of Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. As well as lecturing around the world, she writes for The Times and the Times Literary Supplement and is a frequent contributor to radio and television.
Sisters of Sinai (a book recently written by Professor Soskice) tells an extraordinary tale of 19th century exploration; how two Scottish sisters made one of the most important ancient manuscript finds of the age. Hidden in a cupboard beneath the monastic library at St Catherine's in the Sinai desert the twins discovered what looked like a palimpsest: one text written over another. It was Agnes who recognised the obscure text for what it was - one of the earliest copies of the Gospels written in ancient Syriac.....