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Apocrypha Syriaca

The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae

  • Paperback
  • 326 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 17 x 24.5 x 1.8 cm

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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. First published in 1902 as part of the Studia Sinaitica, this text is transcribed and translated by Lewis from a Syriac manuscript she acquired in Suez in 1895. As well as featuring pages of the Septaguint and the Peshitta Gospels, the palimpsest includes some Arabic pages including a very early version of the Qur'an (estimated by Lewis as seventh-century). Illustrated with reproductions of the leaves of the various texts, this is a valuable resource for scholars of Syriac, but also of interest for historians of Christianity and Early Islam.
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  • Author

    Agnes Smith Lewis

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    February 2012

  • Weight

    523g

  • Page Count

    326

  • Dimensions

    17 x 24.5 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108043489

  • ISBN-10

    1108043488

  • Eden Code

    4023541

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