The only published translation of the Ethiopic Esther is French: F. M. Esteves Pereira, Le Livre d'Esther: version éthiopienne, Patrologia Orientalis 9.1 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1913), which prints the Ge'ez text with a French rendering; the 'Ethiopic Bible' project describes its scan as including 'its French translation' (https://www.tau.ac.il/~hacohen/Esther/Information.html). No English version appears in HOLLIS Primo, where 'Ethiopic Esther' returns 18 records - Pereira's French volume, Dillmann's 1861-71 Ge'ez edition of Kings/Chronicles/Ezra/Esther, and unrelated Septuagint studies - but no English Esther (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20Esther&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 K10plus 'aethiopisch Esther' returns 0 records (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Daethiopisch%20Esther&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc). Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT1362Esther (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT1362Esther) registers no edition or translation, but does carry the Ge'ez text of the Ethiopian Orthodox printed Bible.
A test case for the whole domain: the Ethiopic Esther has an English gap despite a published translation: the one modern-language rendering is French (1913), and no English one was located. The digitized text is an image scan, not machine-readable Ge'ez. LIT1362Esther in Beta maṣāḥǝft does hold the full Ge'ez text (about 68,000 characters) of the EOTC printed Bible, so the source text is available in TEI even though the 1913 scan is not.
| Edition / series |
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| Le Livre d'Esther: version éthiopienne · Patrologia Orientalis 9.1 · Francisco María Esteves Pereira · 1913 |
| Record | Citation |
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| Ancient translations from Greek to Ethiopic and the predictability of translation syntax | Miles, John Alvin. "Ancient translations from Greek to Ethiopic and the predictability of translation syntax." Thesis--Harvard, 1971. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990060895110203941 |
| From Josephus to Yosippon and beyond : text-re-interpretations-afterlives | Bay, Carson, 1986-. "From Josephus to Yosippon and beyond : text-re-interpretations-afterlives." Brill 2024. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157843488103941 |
| The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint | "The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint." Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155658614003941 |
| The embroidered Bible : studies in biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha in honour of Michael E. Stone | "The embroidered Bible : studies in biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha in honour of Michael E. Stone." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990152243680203941 |
| Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper | "Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper." Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1908. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022442770203941 |