In 1892, two intrepid sisters made one of the most important religious finds of the century. Hidden in a dark chamber in St Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai, they spotted an ancient manuscript which remains to this day one of the earliest known copies of the Bible. Sheila McClennon is joined by Janet Soskice, the author of a new book about the sisters and travel writer, Dea Birkett, to discuss how these two rich and eccentric Ayrshire women were able to make such a priceless find in a remote part of Egypt when women rarely travelled alone.
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice is published by Chatto & Windus £18.99 (hardback) IISBN: 0701173416
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