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How the Codex Was Found - A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai, from Mrs Lewis's Journals 1892-1893 (Paperback)
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How the Codex Was Found - A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai, from Mrs Lewis's Journals 1892-1893 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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The Scottish twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843 1926) and Margaret
Gibson (1843 1920) between them spoke modern Greek, Arabic, Hebrew,
Persian and Syriac, and were pioneering biblical scholars and
explorers at a time when women rarely ventured to foreign lands.
The sisters made several journeys to the Monastery of St Catherine
on Mount Sinai, and their first two visits there are described in
this 1893 publication. Using her sister's journals, Margaret Gibson
tells how Agnes discovered a version of the Gospels in Syriac from
the fifth century CE. This text is immensely important, being an
example of the New Testament written in the eastern branch of
Aramaic, the language that Jesus himself spoke. Meanwhile, Margaret
Gibson studied other manuscripts in the library and photographed
them; the sisters later transcribed and published many of these.
Controversy over the circumstances of the discovery led to Margaret
publishing this account in 1893.
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