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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
In an article published un Vol. XLIII (1980) of BSOAS I reported the identification of the Ethiopic version of the Lives of Ezekiel and Daniel, and I there presented the text and an annotated translation of these two short pieces, which belong in the pseudepigraphic work known as the Lives of the Prophets. A substantial further portion of the Ethiopic version of this work was subsequently identified by MR. Roger Cowley in a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, and he very kindly drew this to my attention. My purpose in this article is to publish the text and a translation of this new material. Mr. Cowley has also identified a fragmentary Ethiopic text containing a Life of Job and the beginning of a Life of Moses. I hope to consider this text on a future occasion and would merely obserce here that its contents are different in character from those of the work that is conventionally known as the Lives of the Prophets. I would like to record here my very grateful thanks to Mr. Cowley for his kindness in informing me of the existence of both these texts.
1 ‘The Ethiopic version of the lives of the prophets: Ezekiel and Daniel’, BSOAS, XLIII, 2, 1980, 1977–206. TO the works listed in note I of that article add: Delling, G. (in collaboration with M. Maser), Bibliographie zur jüdisch-hellenistischen und intertestamentarischen Literatur 1900–1970, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1975, 172Google ScholarCharlesworth, J. H. (with the assistance of P. Dykers and M. J. H. Charlesworth), The pseudepigrapha and modern research. New Edition with a Supplement. (Society of Biblical Literature, Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series, 7S), Chico, 1981, 175–7, 299.Google Scholar
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9 Cf. Ullendorff, Ethiopia and the Bible, 55–6.
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