The letters and writings of a 19th-century Bishop of
Natal, John Colenso, were unveiled at an exhibition at St John's
College, Cambridge, earlier this month. Colenso, a missionary who
provoked outrage by questioning the historical reliability of
parts of the Old Testament, also scandalised Victorian Britain
with his sympathies for the native Africans in Natal and Zululand.
The exhibition,The Missionary College, includes Bishop Colenso's
dictionaries of Zulu for fellow missionaries to use, and also
his writings on the Pentateuch, which conclude that Moses was not
their author. The exhibition runs until 17 April