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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Select Narratives of Holy Women: Translation
• Subtitle: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest
• Author: Agnes Smith Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9781108043182
• ISBN: 1108043186
• ID: 02057623
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. March 2012

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