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[Frederick Zammit]

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From: Joe Inguanez <joe.in...@gmail.com>
Date: 21 November 2013 12:18
Subject: PLEASE CIRCULATE
To: Arthur Vella sj <gv...@yahoo.com>, Rene Camilleri <renc...@gmail.com>, PAULINE DIMECH <pdim...@hotmail.com>, Fr Paul Pace <paul...@um.edu.mt>, Paul Sciberras <paul.sc...@um.edu.mt>, Gillian Cachia <gillian...@um.edu.mt>, Dr A Vella <ave...@go.net.mt>, Charles Savona Ventura <charles.sav...@um.edu.mt>, John Mamo <giovan...@gmail.com>, carmen Mamo <carmen...@gmail.com>, Angele Borg CAM/CPI <ang...@camcpi.org>, Joseph Grech <josep...@timesofmalta.com>, Joseph Borg <josep...@um.edu.mt>, Celaine Buhagiar <celaine....@campusfm.um.edu.mt>, Ruth D'Amato <ruth....@gmail.com>, albert debono <alb...@youtheme.eu>, Gatt Rebecca <rebecc...@maltadiocese.org>

Tales of Sinai: The Incredible Lady Bible Hunters

by Professor Janet Soskice

Jesus College

Cambridge

Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian adventurers.  Female, middle-aged and without university degrees, in 1892 the twin sisters made their way by camel and foot across the Sinai desert to St. Catherine’s Monastery where Agnes made one of the most important Bible finds of the century. This launched the sisters on a career of eastern Bible hunting, sleeping in tents, placating skeptical monks and coping with unscrupulous dragomans. But their struggles for recognition from Biblical scholar back home in Britain would prove as taxing as their desert travels.  

This illustrated talk is the true story of the faith of  two remarkable Scottish women and of a generation of Bible hunters who confirmed the authenticity and antiquity of the Christian scriptures as we have them today.

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"You must not abandon the ship in a storm

because you cannot control the winds."  Thomas More

Rev. Joe Inguanez

84 Triq San Filippu,

Ghaxaq GXQ 2103

MALTA

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Thanks & Regards

Frederick Zammit