NLI digitizing Ethiopic manuscripts of sacred books

ETHIOPIC WATCH: National Library announces digitization project of Beta Israel sacred manuscripts. Dozens of rare texts in Ge’ez, the ancient Semitic liturgical language used in Ethiopia, to be made available online to the public for the first time (Gavriel Fiske, Times of Israel).

These manuscripts, which are written in Ge’ez, the ancient Semitic liturgical language, include several copies of “The Orit” or Octateuch, the Beta Israel Torah, which comprises the Five Books of Moses plus the books of Joshua, Judges and Ruth.

Other material includes “the Jewish apocryphal texts of Jubilees and Enoch, prayerbooks such as the Book of Psalms, and more,” the NLI said.

For more on the Ethiopic Bible, see here and links.

Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Digitization.

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