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Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text - From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest (Paperback)
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Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text - From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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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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