Book of Ezekiel in Ethiopic, recensions Eth I and Eth II

· Anonymous (Ethiopic Bible translation) · 4th-7th century; Eth II is the later 'academic' recension revised against the Masoretic t… · other · LIT5801EzekI

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

The Ethiopic Ezekiel has a modern critical edition but no translation. Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT5801EzekI and LIT5802EzekII both list only 'bm:Knibb2015Ezekiel' under listBibl type='editions' and carry no 'translation' bibliography (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT5801EzekI, https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT5802EzekII). K10plus 'aethiopisch Ezechiel' returns exactly one record, Michael A. Knibb, The Ethiopic Text of the Book of Ezekiel: A Critical Edition (Oxford 2015), typed 'Text/Quelle' with no 'Übersetzung' (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Daethiopisch%20Ezechiel&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc); the OUP volume is a text edition. Knibb's own follow-up, 'Textual Commentary on the Ethiopic Text of Ezekiel 1-11', Aethiopica 20 (2017) (https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.20.1.962), is a philological commentary, not a translation. HOLLIS Primo 'Ethiopic text of the book of Ezekiel' returns the same edition and no translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20text%20of%20the%20book%20of%20Ezekiel&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

The only book of the Ethiopic Old Testament for which a full Ge'ez text is already in a TEI file: LIT5802EzekII carries roughly 319,000 characters of Ge'ez (measured on the local mirror of the Beta maṣāḥǝft Works export), so a translation could be produced without new transcription. Beta maṣāḥǝft distinguishes an unrevised 'vulgar' recension (Eth I, abbreviated in chh. 42-48) from the later academic recension (Eth II).

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Beta maṣāḥǝft TEI licence) LIT5802EzekII
Beta Masaheft · HTML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Beta maṣāḥǝft TEI licence) LIT5802EzekII

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Book of Ezekiel in Ethiopic, recensions Eth I and Eth II” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-ezekiel