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**List: Ethiopic Ministry
the Bible ( the Biblia )
**File: Amharic Bible History
Ethiopic...
"Ethiopians derive their name from a Greek word
meaning
‘swarthy faces’. Known as Ge’ez, Ethiopic was
brought to Africa
by invaders from southern Arabia, who
ruled northern Ethiopia
in 330 A.D., the traditional date of the coming of Christianity. A
South Semitic language related to Arabic, Ethiopic was sup-
planted in the 15th century by Amharic.
It is now used only as a
liturgical language of the
Abyssinian
Church. The Ethiopic
syllabary, a 23-sign alphabet, is thought by some to have de-
veloped gradually from Semitic writing, or, according to others,
to have been devised in the 5th century by a Greek at the court of
Ethiopia."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
"The origins of the Ethiopic Bible are not
known. Tradition sug-
gests that it was prepared during the 5th century by a group of
nine monks from Egypt, known as the
Nine Saints. Another
widely accepted story attests that a young Syrian my.
named Frumentius arrived about the middle of the 4th century,
founded the Church in Abyssinia, and translated the Bible into
the vernacular. This Bible remained the only version known to
Ethiopians until 1840, when the
Amharic Bible was published.
Although the oldest extant manuscript of the Ethiopic Bible
dates from the 13th century, a study of its text shows its early
Christian origins and long history
of transmission. Translated,
like the Latin
Vulgate, Arabic, and
Coptic, from the Greek
Septuagint and
Greek New Testament, the Ethiopic
Scriptures
may be considered a daughter version of the Greek Bible. An
Old Syriac base has been suggested though
not fully demon-
strated. The version is particularly valued by scholars because
its
unusually large canon includes several apocryphal
books which
have come down to us, in whole or in part, exclusively through
the Ethiopic Bible."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
monks from Egypt?]
"A number of critical editions of the Scriptures
in Ethiopic have
been published, several of these by the BFBS."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only]
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"First
publication, the Psalms and the Song of
Solomon in 1513 at Rome, by
Marcellus Silber al’s Fr{a}ck, edited by
Johann Potken. The Ethiopic translation dates from the 4th or
5th century."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
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"[n]ew [t]estament, Valerius
Doricus et Ludovicus, Rome,
1549;
edited by three Ethiopian monks. .... On it was based the
Ethiopic text
in Vol V. of the London Polyglot, 1655. Critical
edition, BFBS,
1826-30; edited by T. Pell Platt; revised by F. Pretorius,
1899."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only:
"This edition, afterwards reprinted in
the London Polyglot, is very inaccurate; the MSS. used..., and
the editors filled up the chasms that occurred in the text by translating
from the Vulgate." per S. Bagster]
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"Old Testament: Psalter,
Frankfort a. M., 1701; ed. by Job Ludolf.
Reprinted, BFBS, 1815. Genesis to Kings, (?), Leipsic,
1853-71;
ed. by A. Dillmann; Genesis to Leviticus, E. J. Brill, Leyden,
1909-11; ed. by J. O. Boyd."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info
only: ?]
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"[The Book of Psalms in Ethiopic, edited by Job
Ludolf] (Frankfort on Main, 1793)" [Info only]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008633934
"Biblia Veteris Testamenti Aethiopica, in
quinque tomos distributa / ad librorum manuscriptorum fidem edidit et apparatu
critico instruxit Dr. Augustus Dillmann. (Lipsiae, [s.n.], 1853-1894)"
[Info only: OT.]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008408668
"Biblia Veteris Testamenti Aethiopica, in
quinque tomos distributa, ad librorum manuscriptorum fidem edidit et apparatu
critico instruxit dr. Augustus Dillmann ... (Lipsiae, Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii,
1853-61)" [Info only: OT.]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008693451
ETHIOPIC--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only: Ethiopic characters
"1914" John 3:10-19 unknown.]
ETHIOPIC--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only: ETHIOPIC CHARACTER
"1926" Mark 1:2 incorrect (Isaiah).]
**File: Ethiopic Bible History (3)--1860
S. Bagster [Info only]
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