Apocrypha Syriaca - The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae (Paperback)

The twin 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. First published in 1902 as part of the Studia Sinaitica, this text is transcribed and translated by Lewis from a Syriac manuscript she acquired in Suez in 1895. As well as featuring pages of the Septaguint and the Peshitta Gospels, the palimpsest includes some Arabic pages including a very early version of the Qur'an (estimated by Lewis as seventh-century). Illustrated with reproductions of the leaves of the various texts, this is a valuable resource for scholars of Syriac, but also of interest for historians of Christianity and Early Islam.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Editors:	Agnes Smith Lewis
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-04348-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-108-04348-8
Barcode:	9781108043489

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