In Select Narratives of Holy Women, you’ll find accounts of the lives of many important women of the early church. Recorded by eighth-century monk John the Stylite (or John the Recluse), living in a monastery near Antioch, these tales are related in an engaging narrative format. Here the stories are edited and translated by Syriac scholar Agnes Lewis Smith’s skilled hand. Lewis Smith and her twin sister, Margaret Dunlop Gibson, discovered the text overwriting the Sinaitic Palimpsest—the fourth-century Syriac text of the four canonical Gospels—in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery in 1892. Featuring Lewis Smith’s English translation, this unique volume details the lives of Eugenia, Mary, Euphrosyne, Onesima, Drusis, Barbara, Sophia, and more—including stories of conversions, persecution, and in some cases, martyrdom. This text also includes helpful appendices, notes, and an index of proper names.
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