Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: A Biography of James Rendel Harris (1852–1941)

Alessandro Falcetta teaches at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF MAPSTABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSABBREVIATIONSAUTHOR’S NOTESPROLOGUECHAPTER 1. BETWEEN TWO RIVERSCHAPTER 2. FROM MATH TO HORTCHAPTER 3. CONVERSIONCHAPTER 4. HELENCHAPTER 5. A PROMISING SCHOLARCHAPTER 6. A POPULAR PROFESSORCHAPTER 7. THE DARK CLOSETCHAPTER 8. THE CALL OF THE CAMCHAPTER 9. THE SEPTUAGINT MISSIONCHAPTER 10. WITH THE SISTERS OF SINAI CHAPTER 11. THE BREEZE OF CAMBRIDGECHAPTER 12. THE ORIGINS OF THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENTCHAPTER 13. THE SWORD OF THE SULTANCHAPTER 14. BACK TO THE OURFANS CHAPTER 15. LEYDEN’S DIS-APPOINTMENT CHAPTER 16. THE QUAKER RENAISSANCECHAPTER 17. THE FOUNDATION OF WOODBROOKECHAPTER 18. THE DOCTOR IN WONDERLANDCHAPTER 19. INNER LIGHT CHAPTER 20. PRESIDENT OF THE FREE CHURCHESCHAPTER 21. THE CRUMBLING EMPIRECHAPTER 22. THE END OF A WORLDCHAPTER 24. MANUSCRIPTSCHAPTER 25. THE ODES OF SOLOMONCHAPTER 26. THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITYCHAPTER 27. THE ORIGINS OF RELIGIONCHAPTER 28. THE CURATORCHAPTER 29. THE QUEST OF THE HARMONYCHAPTER 30. THE RENDEL HARRIS LIBRARYCHAPTER 31. THE MINGANA COLLECTIONCHAPTER 32. THE BLIND MASTERCHAPTER 33. THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATIONCHAPTER 34. THE LAST DISCOVERYEPILOGUEBIBLIOGRAPHYENDNOTES

This is a detailed, ably and stylistically composed work; it eclipses most biographies of biblical and theological luminaries of the past, in both its particulars and its panorama.