Codex climaci rescriptus. Frangments of Sixth Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles and of St. Paul's Epistles. Also Fragments of an Early Palestinian Lectionary of the Old Testament, etc. Transcribed and Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis. With Seven Facsimiles. Horae Emiticae No. VIII
by Lewis, Dr. Agnes Smith
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Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis (PhD., LL.D., D.D., Litt.D.) and her sister Dr. Margaret Dunlop Gibson (LL.D., D.D., Litt.D.) were born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1843, the twin daughters of a wealthy solicitor. Upon the death of their father, the heiresses went to Greece in 1866. Agnes devoted herself to learning Greek; she later learned Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew (among other languages). In 1890, both sisters now widowed, traveled to St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai where they discovered a version of the Old Syriac Gospels (5th century AD) - the Sinai Palimpsest. By now they were established as serious Semitic scholars. The sisters continued their travels in the Middle East and made even greater discoveries. Their cataloguing of the manuscripts of Saint Catherine's Monastery, their acquisition of some 1700 manuscript fragments, and subsequent translation and publication profoundly affected scholarship of the early Christian church.
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- Priscilla Juvelis (US)
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- Codex climaci rescriptus. Frangments of Sixth Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles and of St. Paul's Epistles. Also Fragments of an Early Palestinian Lectionary of the Old Testament, etc. Transcribed and Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis. With Seven Facsimiles. Horae Emiticae No. VIII
- Author
- Lewis, Dr. Agnes Smith
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1909
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