"Greek" Esdras - Εσδρας Α'

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Called "1 Esdras" in the Septuagint Greek, "2 Ezra" in earlier Ge'ez sources, and "3 Ezra" in the Vulgate.
This text is an alternate version of Masoretic Ezra-Nehemiah, either a retelling in Greek or a translation from alternate source material.

Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Ethiopic 2 Ezra
- in Ge'ez
መጽሐፈ ፡ ዘዕዝራ ፡ ክልኤቱ ።
ዐይን: Francisco María Esteves Pereira
Likely typical "early" mss.
EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 187]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 256];
d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.); EAP 704/2/6 (1595-1605)
Likely typical "standardized" ms.
Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 363]; EMIP 945 (18th c.) [p: 104]
Likely typical "modern" ms.
Unesco 2-18 (19th c, only possibly typical.) [p: 47];
Vat. Cer. 75 (1930/1) [p: 241]
Potential "Outlier" ms.
d'Abbadie 35 (17th c.)

Septuagint 1 Esdras
- in Koine Greek
Εσδρας Α':
Rahlfs' edition
πηγή: nocr
Swete's edition.
Codex Vaticanus (p: 572)

Deuterocanonical versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Vulgate 3 Esdras
(version found in the Paris and Clementine bibles)
- in Latin
3 esdrae
fons: vulgate.org
(the Vulgate text represents an "Old Latin" Vetus Latina text)
ms. Vat.Lat.1 [f. 179v]

Syro-Hexaplar (Septuagint) "Greek" Esdras
(no Peshitta version exists, but this Syro-Hexaplar version is found in some Peshitta mss.)
- in Syriac Aramaic
ܟܬܒܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܥܙܪܐ ܘܗܢܐ ܕܝܢ ܐܝܟ ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ ܕܫܒ̈ܥܝܢ
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
earlier academic edition
ܡܒܘܥܐ: Paul de Lagarde
12a1 = Buchanan Bible (Cambridge Oo. 1.1,2)

BNF Syriaque 11

Non-canonical versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

3 Esdras: "Versio Altera"
(an alternative "Old Latin" Vetus Latina text)
- in Latin
esdrae tertius
fons: Petri Sabatier
BNF Latin 111 = Colbertino 630

3 Esdras: further Latin versions
(additional versions,
generally intermediate between the "Versio Altera" and the Vulgate text
)

- in Latin
esdrae tertiusBNF Latin 16744;
Cotton Ms. Claudius E I [img. 356];
"Iberian version": Madrid, BM, Bibl. 7
(not digitised. a distinct version, not intermediate between "Altera" and Vulgate.)

Significantly related biblical texts:

Ezra-Nehemiah is a single written composition, consisting of:

  1. Ezra
  2. Nehemiah

Other books in the tradition of Ezra:

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