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J. Rendel Harris
James Rendel Harris (Plymouth, Devon, January 27, 1852 – March 1, 1941) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai enabled Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson to discover there the Sinaitic Palimpsest, the oldest New Testament document in existence.
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