2 Meqabyan - ዘመቃብያን ፡ ክልኤቱ ።

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Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Second Book of Meqabyan
- in Ge'ez
መጽሐፈ ፡ ዘመቃብያን ፡ ክልኤቱ ። (p: 40)
- incomplete critical edition

ዐይን: Josef Horovitz
Likely typical "early" mss.:
EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c.); EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 58] ;
IES 721 / EAP 286/1/1/426 (15th-16th c.);
EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 315]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.)
Likely typical "modern" ms.:
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 260v]
Potential "Outlier" ms.:
EMIP 949 (20th c.) [p: 53]

Other significantly related biblical texts

The books of Meqabyan possibly draw on Zena Ayhud (see "Maccabees, Ethiopic Book of")

The rest of the Books of Maccabees



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