Nov 20, 2010
The author visits the places or as close to the places that he thinks are the present day places mentioned in the Bible. Trouble is, there are always at least 5 possibilities for each place. But that does not stop him. He is on a journey! A quest! And an interesting peregrination it is.
Mr. Feiler visits St. Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai, home of the CODEX SYRIACUS, ”one of only two manuscripts in the world that preserves the text of the four gospels from the time when they were translated into Old Syrian in the fifth century C.E.” The library also is home to a copy of a letter