How the Codex Was Found: A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai From Mrs. Lewis's Journals, 1892-1893

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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.