TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Agnes Smith
TI  - Select Narratives of Holy Women: Translation: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Religion
SN  - 9781139168885 (ebook)
PY  - 1900///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139168885
ER  -