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Wir sind gerne für Sie daThe 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781108043489
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-108-04348-9
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.01.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2012
- Serie: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 565 g
- Seiten: 326
- Format (B x H x T): 170 x 244 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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- Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen