Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text : From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest Paperback / softback
Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Religion series
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The sisters Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) were pioneering biblical scholars who became experts in a number of ancient languages.
Travelling widely in the Middle East, they made several significant discoveries, including one of the earliest manuscripts of the Four Gospels in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the language probably spoken by Jesus himself.
Their chief discoveries were made in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai.
This fascicule, a useful resource for scholars of Syriac, and originally published as part of the Studia Sinaitica series, is the text of a Syriac manuscript from the monastic library at St Catherine's.
Transcribed by Lewis and first published in 1900, the manuscript recounts the tales of a number of saintly women including Pelagia, a rich courtesan who converted to Christianity, and Eugenia, a holy woman who lived as a man and became the abbot of a monastery.
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- Pages:400 pages, 8 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
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- Pages:400 pages, 8 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781108043359
