Apocrypha Syriaca
Apocrypha Syriaca
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GBPThe 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.
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February 2012Paperback
9781108043489
326 pages
244 × 170 × 17 mm
0.52kg
8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Protevangelium Jacobi
- Transitus Mariae
- Isaiah XXXI.6-XXXII.24
- Isaiah XXXIV.1-13
- LX.3-7
- Exodus XIV.24-31
- Syriac hymn
- Mar Ephraim
- Miscellanea
- Mar Jacob
- Miscellanea
- Appendix I. Taylor-Schechter fragments
- Appendix II. Transitus Mariae. Sinae text
- Introduction
- Table of quires
- Index of proper names
- Emendanda to Taylor-Schechter fragments
- Septuagint text Gen. XL.3,4,7
- Coran I
- Coran II
- Arabic document
- Errata
- Translation.
