Agnes Smith Lewis (1843-1926)

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.

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