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

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lewis, Agnes Smith (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1900
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Religion
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (400 pages)
ISBN:9781139169035
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139169035