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Bible Hunter

Simon Pare

2013183 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Haus Publishing · 183 pages · ENGISBN 9781908323477

"In 1844, academic and fundamentalist Christian Constantin Tischendorf, who was driven by his obsession with the origins of the Bible to a remote monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, discovered the manuscript in a basket said to have been discarded by the monks ... Part travelogue, part historical study and part critique, The Bible hunter tells of the author's trip to Sinai, the history of the Bible and early Church and the lives and liturgies of the monks of St. Catherine's Monastery"--Jacket flap.

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