The Sisters of SinaiBy: Janet Soskice 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 Westernersmale or femalefeared to tread in the Middle East, they