How the Codex Was Found - A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai, From Mrs Lewis s Journals 1892

Klappentext Gibson's 1893 narrative describes the discovery of a Syriac version of the Gospels at St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai. Zusammenfassung Twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) were pioneering biblical scholars and explorers with a command of Aramaic and Syriac. Gibson's 1893 narrative tells how her sister discovered a Syriac version of part of the Gospels at the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. Inhaltsverzeichnis First visit to Sinai; Identification of the Codex; A Greek description of Sinai; St Sylvia of Aquitaine; Second visit to Sinai.

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• Authors: Agnes Smith Lewis
• Assisted by: Margaret Dunlop Gibson (Editor), Gibson Margaret Dunlop (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9781108043366
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04336-6
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Religion / Christian Church / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Egypt, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, History of Religion, Christian institutions & organizations, Church history, Classic Travel Writing, Religious institutions and organizations