Select Narratives of Holy Women: Translation
From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
- Translator: Agnes Smith Lewis
- Date Published: March 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108043182
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The 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. Their chief discoveries were made in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. This fascicule is the translation of a Syriac manuscript from the monastic library of St Catherine. Translated 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. An interesting collection of stories with relevance for scholars of Middle Eastern Christianity.
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- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108043182
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introductory notes
Eugenia
Mary-Marinus
Euphrosyne
Onesima
Drusis
Barbara
Mary (slave of Tertullius)
Irene
Euphemia
Sophia
Cyprian and Justa
Hymn of Mar Ephraim
Colophon
Index of proper names.
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