The Apocalypse of Gregory of Edessa - መጽሐፍ ፡ አርአያ ፡ ቅዱስ ፡ ጎርጎርዮስ ።

A book of the Beta Israel Secondary Canon.
Likely first written in Melkite Christian Arabic. Translated to Ge'ez, and then adapted into the Beta Israel work "Gorgorios".
Later separately translated from Arabic to Syriac.

Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Beta Israel Apocalypse of Gorgorios
- in Ge'ez
(heavily adapted from the Christian text)
ጎርጎርዮስ ፡ ነቢይ ።
ዐይን: Joseph Halevy
See also: transcription of d'Abbadie 107 (with translation).
Faitlovitch Ms. 11 (p: 5.);
Faitlovitch Ms. 15 (p: 37.);
d'Abbadie 107

Non-Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Apocalypse of Gregory:
Christian Ethiopic version
- in Ge'ez
(only partially extant, seemingly)
መጽሐፍ ፡ አርአያ ፡ ቅዱስ ፡ ወንጹሕ ፡ ጎርጎርዮስ ፡ መንፈሳዊ ።
(no printed edition appears to exist.)
EMML 8775 [p: 66]
Ms. Qorqor-001 (not digitised, partial photographs available)

Apocalypse of Gregory of Edessa
or "Revelation of the Seraphic Gregory"
- in Syriac Aramaic
translated from the Arabic in the 17th c.
ܓܠܝܢܐ ܕܗܘܐ ܥܠ ܓܪܝܓܪܝܘܣ ܢܘܪܢܐ
ܕܚܙܐ ܦܪܕܝܣܐ ܕܥܕܢ ܘܓܝܗܢܐ
Ms. Thrissur Syr. 86;
Ms. Piramadam Syr. 25;
Ms. Ernakulam Syr. 32

Significantly related biblical texts:

The Book of Numbers.


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