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

Agnes Smith Lewis

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Fontes

• 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

• 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)