Agnes e Margaret Smith

Margaret Dunlop Gibson (esquerda) e Agnes Smith Lewis

Agnes Smith Lewis (1843–1926)^[1] e Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1843–1920), nées Agnes e Margaret Smith (às vezes chamadas de Westminster Sisters) nascidas em 11 de janeiro, eram árabes, cristãs palestinas aramaicas, e estudiosos da língua siríaca. Como filhas gêmeas de John Smith de Irvine, Ayrshire, Escócia, elas aprenderam mais de 12 idiomas entre elas, e se tornaram eruditas aclamadas em seus campos acadêmicos, e benfeitoras da Igreja Presbiteriana da Inglaterra, especialmente para Westminster College, Cambridge.^[1]^[2]

Trabalhos[editar | editar código-fonte]

Agnes Smith Lewis[editar | editar código-fonte]

Eastern Pilgrims: The travels of three ladies (Londres, 1870)
Effie Maxwell (Londres, 1876) (um romance)
The Brides of Ardmore: A story of Irish life (Londres, 1880)
Through Cyprus (Londres, 1887)
Glimpses of Greek Life and Scenery (Londres, 1884)
Catalogue of the Syriac MSS. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai (Londres, 1894)
A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest (Londres e Nova York, 1894)
A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest (Londres, 1896) (edição revisada e ampliada)
Some Pages of the Four Gospels Re-transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest with a Translation of the Whole Text (Londres, 1896)
Westminster College, Cambridge , beneficiário das Irmãs de Westminster
In the Shadow of Sinai: A story of travel and research from 1895 to 1897 (Cambridge, 1898)
Select Narratives of Holy Women: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest (Londres, 1900)
Apocrypha Syriaca: The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae (Londres, 1902, com Alphonse Mingana)
Acta Mythologica Apostolorum (Londres, 1904) (Textos; tradução para o inglês)
Supplement to a Palestinian Syriac Lectionary (Cambridge, 1907)
Codex Climaci Rescriptus: Fragments of the Sixth-Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles, and of St Paul’s Epistles (Londres, 1909)
The Old Syriac Gospels or Evangelion da-Mepharreshê (Londres, 1910)
The Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and the Story of Eulogius from a Palestinian Syriac and Arabic Palimpsest (Cambridge, 1912)
Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest (Londres, 1913)
Leaves From Three Ancient Qur'ans; Possibly Pre-Othmanic (Cambridge, 1914, com Alphonse Mingana)

Margaret Dunlop Gibson[editar | editar código-fonte]

How the Codex Was Found: A narrative of two visits to Sinai from Mrs. Lewis's journals, 1892 – 1893 (Cambridge, 1893)
An Arabic Version of the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians with part of the Epistle to the Ephesians from a ninth century MS. in the Convent of Saint Catharine on Mount Sinai. (Londres, 1894)
Catalogue of the Arabic mss. in the Convent of Saint Catharine on Mount Sinai. (Londres, 1894)
An Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven Catholic Epistles. (Londres 1899)
The Commentaries of Ishodad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha c. 850 ad. (Londres 1911)
Matthew and Mark in Syriac. (Londres 1911)
Luke and John in Syriac. (Londres 1911)
The Acts of the Apostles and the Catholic Fathers. (Londres 1913)
The Epistles of St Paul. (Londres 1916)

Agnes Smith Lewis e Margaret Dunlop Gibson[editar | editar código-fonte]

A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary containing Lessons from The Pentateuch, Job, Proverbs, Prophest, Acts, and Epistles (Londres, 1897)
The Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels (Londres, 1899)
Palestinian Syriac Texts from palimpsest fragments in the Taylor-Schechter collection (Londres, 1900)

Referências

↑ ^a ^b Christa Müller-Kessler, Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 33 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 579–580.
↑ Christa Müller-Kessler, Dunlop Gibson, née Smith (1843–1920), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 22 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 89–90.

Fontes[editar | editar código-fonte]

Müller-Kessler, Christa (2004), Dunlop Gibson, née Smith (1843–1920), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 22. Oxford: Oxford Press, pp. 89–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/55585.
Müller-Kessler, Christa (2004), Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 33. Oxford: Oxford Press, pp. 579–580. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34510.

Ligações externas[editar | editar código-fonte]

Agnes Smith Lewis; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (em inglês)
Margaret Dunlop Gibson; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (em inglês)
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson (em inglês)
Digitised lantern slides of the sisters' travels from Westminster College, on Cambridge Digital Library (em inglês)
National Archives (em inglês)
Agnes Smith Lewis; Who is Who (em inglês)
Agnes Smith Lewis (em inglês)
Sinai Palimpsest Project (em inglês)

[CMK-1] Christa Müller-Kessler, Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 33 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 579–580.

[CMKD-2] Christa Müller-Kessler, Dunlop Gibson, née Smith (1843–1920), in Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography, vol. 22 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 89–90.

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