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MOUNT SINAI. By A. M. R. Dobson. (Methuen. 68. net.) De. RENDET. lImuus, the well-known patristic and Oriental scholar, who in 1889 visited the Convent of St. Katharine in
Sinai and found in the library the Apology of Aristides, revisited it at the end of 1922, hoping to find other treasures
missed by himself, by • Tischendorf or by Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson. He was then accompanied by a small party of English and American men and wore -8-1, pilgrims and schotarS. Among them was the daughter of his cousin, the late Mr. Austin Dobson, who before her death wrote this account of their journey and stay at the Convent. It is very simply told, with a little moralizing here and there, but makes ono
understand how any student of the Bible would he thrilled in that grand and lonely scenery by the thoughts of Mosaic and later mysteries which are implicitly believed by thase who live there and by the tradition's of saints and 'hermits • who have peopled it through the Christian Era. Before the War, the Convent was visited by thousands of pilgrims of the
Eastern Churches, but by very few English people. It is. however, the British scholars like Dr. Harris who have won the confidence of the monks and archimandrit3s and have taught them -to appreciate their treasures. However gratefully students of the New Testament think of Tischendorf, they will not be surprised to find that in the Convent he is still known us °the thief." Can anyone tell us how Sinaiticus" has fared since the Russian revolution ? Miss Dobson's book is illustrated. with -photographs taken by the party, some pleasant and sonic grim, and Dr. Harris contributes a preface. .
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