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.For more on the Ethiopic Bible, see here and links.Other material includes “the Jewish apocryphal texts of Jubilees and Enoch, prayerbooks such as the Book of Psalms, and more,” the NLI said.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Digitization.
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