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Agnes Smith Lewis (1843–1926)

Author of A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest

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Includes the names: Agnes S. Lewis, Agnes Smith Lewis

Also includes: A. S. Lewis (2)

Works by Agnes Smith Lewis

A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest (1894) 8 copies
Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest (1913) 7 copies
Some Pages of the Four Gospels: Re-Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest with a Translation of the Whole Text 6 copies
The Old Syriac Gospels, or, Evangelion da-Mepharreshê; being the text of the Sinai or Syro-Antiochene palimpsist,… (1910) 4 copies
In the Shadow of Sinai: A Story of Travel and Research from 1895 to 1897 (1999) 3 copies
The Forty Martyrs of Sinai Desert and the Story of Eulogios from a Palestinian Syriac and Arabic Palimpest (Horae… (1912) 3 copies
A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary (2015) 2 copies
Select Narratives of Holy Women from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest (2012) 2 copies
Eastern Pilgrims: The travels of three ladies (2002) 2 copies
The mythological Acts of the apostles; (1904) 2 copies
Apocrypha Syriaca: The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae [No. XI] (2015) 2 copies
Forty-one Facsimilies of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts with Text and English Translation [No. XII] 2 copies
Catalogue Of The Syriac Mss. In The Convent Of S. Catherine On Mount Sinai 1 copy
Palestinian Syrian Texts: From Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (2005) 1 copy
Codex Climaci Rescriptus: (Horae Semiticae) (2004) 1 copy
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Birthdate
1843
Date of death
1926
Gender
female
Nationality
Scotland
UK
Places of residence
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Education
Irvine Academy
Occupations
scholar
linguist
translator
Diarist
Relationships
Gibson Margaret Dunlop (twin sister)
Short biography
Agnes Smith Lewis and her identical twin sister Margaret Smith Gibson were both remarkable scholars and linguists who travelled and worked together. Agnes attended the Irvine Academy and in 1887, she married Samuel Savage Lewis, a clergyman. With his early death in 1891, Agnes lived and worked with the widowed Margaret.
They became the center of a lively intellectual and religious circle. In 1892, they travelled to the library of Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Egyptian Sinai, where they discovered and translated the Sinai Palimpsest manuscripts, some of the oldest surviving New Testament manuscripts. Margaret photographed and exhibited some of them at the International Congress of Orientalists. Using Agnes's diaries, Margaret wrote and published How the Codex was Found in 1898.

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