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Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text
From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest

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  • Date Published: March 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108043359

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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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    • Date Published: March 2012
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108043359
    • length: 400 pages
    • dimensions: 244 x 170 x 21 mm
    • weight: 0.64kg
    • contains: 8 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Index of proper names
    Paliimpsest fragments of the Acts of Thomas
    Eugenia
    Mary-Marinus
    Euphrosyne
    Onesima
    Drusis
    Barbara
    Mary (slave of Tertullius)
    Irene
    Euphemia
    Sophia
    Cyprian and Justa
    Hymn of Mar Ephraim.

  • Editor

    Agnes Smith Lewis

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