# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-rendel-harris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:22:29.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-rendel-harris"
name: "J. Rendel Harris"
slug: "j-rendel-harris"
description: "James Rendel Harris 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 Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt enabled twin sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson to discover there the Sinaitic Palimpsest, the oldest Syriac New Testament document in existence. He subsequently accompanied them on a second trip, with Robert Bensly and Francis Crawford Burkitt, to decipher the palimpsest. He himself discovered there other manuscripts. Harris's Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai appeared in 1890. He was a Quaker."
tagline: "English biblical scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._Rendel_Harris.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1852-01-27"
deathDate: "1941-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ջեյմս Ռենդել Հարրիս"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump