Select Narratives of Holy Women: Syriac Text: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108043359)

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.

Author: Agnes Smith Lewis
ISBN-10: 1108043356
ISBN-13: 9781108043359
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.82d