Wisdom of Solomon - Σοφία Σολομώντος

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Canonical Versions

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Ethiopic Wisdom of Solomon
- in Ge'ez		መጽሐፈ ፡ ጥበበ ፡ ሰሎሞን ።
ዐይን: Augustus Dillman
Likely typical "early" mss.:
EMML 2080 (14th-16th c.) [p: 163]; EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c.);
EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 293]; EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 20];
EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 74]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.)
Likely typical "standardized" mss.:
EMML 7103 (1659) [p: 57]; Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 182];
EMML 38 (18th c.) [p: 128]
Likely typical "modern" ms.:
EMIP 1070 (1914) [p: 136];
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 402v]
Beta Israel mss. :
Faitlovitch 2 (15th c.) [p: 52]; d'Abbadie 30 (17th-18th c.)
Potential "outlier" mss.:
Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588);
D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.); EMIP 1074 (17th c.) [p: 116];
Davies Axum Zion 3 (1664, formatted like a psalter) [p: 300];
Unesco 10-4 (late 17th-early 18th c.) [p: 66]; EMML 3439 (18th c.) [p: 29]

Septuagint Wisdom of Solomon
- in Koine Greek		Σοφία Σολομώντος
Rahlfs' edition. πηγή: nocr 		Codex Vaticanus (p: 809)

Vulgate Wisdom of Solomon
- in Latin		 sapientia
fons: vulgate.org
(the Vulgate represents a "Vetus Latina" (Old Latin) text)

Critical edition of the Vetus Latina text. 		Codex Gigas

Deuterocanonical versions

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Peshitta Wisdom of Solomon
- in Syriac Aramaic		ܟܬܒܐ ܕܚܟܡܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ ܕܝܠܗ ܕܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܒܪ ܕܘܝܕ
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה		Codex Ambrosianus

Non-canonical versions

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Early Palestinian Christian version of Wisdom of Solomon
- in "Syriac" Aramaic		 general fragment
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה

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