
Professor Janet Soskice
Professor of Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University
The Incredible Lady Bible Hunters: the anglophone and philhellenic Agnes and Margaret Smith
Janet Soskice is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. She has written about Agnes and Margaret Smith in her book Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels.
Agnes and Margaret travelled in Greece and Sinai in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and had an affectionate relationship with Greek Orthodoxy whose monks lived in St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai.