Janet Martin Soskice
Autor de Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
Sobre El Autor
Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge.
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Obras de Janet Martin Soskice
Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century (2005) — Editor — 24 copias
Obras relacionadas
The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology (Theology for the Twenty-First Century) (2000) — Contribuidor — 56 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1951-05-16
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Western Canada
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Educación
- Cornell University
University of Sheffield
University of Oxford - Ocupaciones
- professor
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- University of Cambridge (Jesus College)
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Agnes and Margaret were twins. Born in the 1840s at a time when women and girls could go to school but the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge didn't award degrees to women. They were mostly educated at home and mastered a good number of modern and ancient languages. Their skill with languages served them well both in traveling in remote and primitive places and in understanding and interpreting the ancient manuscripts that they sought. In the library of St. Catherine's Monastery Agnes found a forgotten and neglected manuscript that she recognized as a palimpsest, a manuscript written over an earlier writing. Before the invention of paper most books were written on velum, made from layers of calf skin. It was expensive and often reused by scraping off the older writing. The older writing was sometimes visible and possible to decipher. The document that Agnes found contained the four Gospels of the New Testament underneath a collection of the lives of women saints.
Their discoveries aroused great interest but also jealousy and opposition from the male dominated scholarly world. Margaret and Agnes both became well regarded in the academic world. While Oxford and Cambridge still wouldn't award degrees to women many other universities awarded honorary doctorates to both sister. The sisters made many expeditions to Egypt, the Sinai and other Middle Eastern sites. They also helped recover some stolen manuscripts. After their travels were over they continued to study, transcribe and translate manuscripts in Cambridge.
The author of The Sisters of Sinai is Janet Soskice. She is a professor at Cambridge University where women now can be awarded degrees.
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