Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text
From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest
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- Editor: Agnes Smith Lewis
- Date Published: March 2012
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- 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.
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