ebooks Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy; Comprising the Nyaya; the Sankhya; the Vedant; To Which Is Added a Discussion of the Authority of the Vedas by Krishna Mohan Banerjea in History

Description

Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female; middle-aged; and without university degrees or formal language training; the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac; the language that Jesus spoke. In an era when most Westerners—male or female—feared to tread in the Middle East; they slept in tents and endured temperamental camels; unscrupulous dragomen; and suspicious monks to become unsung heroines in the continuing effort to discover the Bible as originally written.