Agnes Smith Lewis (F / Britain, 1843-1926), scholar

Agnes Smith Lewis

Agnes Smith Lewis (1843-1926) was a British scholar. With her twin sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson, Agnes Smith was a pioneering woman scholar in the field of Semitic Studies. Hers was the discovery of the Codex syrus sinaiticus in the monastery of St. Catherine in 1892.

Works

Books

• Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest (1913 Lewis), book

Biography

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References

• Janet Martin Soskice, The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)