unknown (Beta Masaheft records the titles 'Apocalypse of Ezra', '4 Ezra', 'Ezra Sutaʾel'; no Gǝʿǝz incipit is given)
· Anonymous (apocalypse attributed to Ezra/Salathiel)
· composition of 4 Ezra c. late 1st c. CE; the Ethiopic version is a daughter translation o…
· apocryphon
· LIT1376Apocal
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
Sparks, The Apocryphal Old Testament (1984) states explicitly, when surveying the Ezra apocrypha, that besides the three Greek texts he translates there is '(2) an Ethiopic apocalypse, edited and translated into French by Halévy in 1902' - i.e. the English corpus omits it (full text at https://archive.org/download/TheApocryphalOldTestamentSPARKS/The-Apocryphal-Old-Testament_SPARKS_djvu.txt). Basset's French 'Apocalypse d'Esdras' (Les Apocryphes éthiopiens 9) was reissued by Archè, Milan, 1982, and the Harvard record for that item is French (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Apocalypse%20d%27Esdras&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 English 4 Ezra (Metzger in Charlesworth; Stone's Hermeneia commentary) is translated from the LATIN, not from the Ethiopic (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Fourth%20Ezra%20Ethiopic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Beta Masaheft records a single witness, London BL Add. 16188 (ms_i2) - the same codex that carries the Wisdom of the Sibyl. The Ethiopic text is not simply the Latin 4 Ezra: it has its own Christian framing and readings, so the standard English 4 Ezra cannot substitute for it.
Existing translations recorded
Edition / series
Apocalypse d'Esdras (Les Apocryphes éthiopiens 9) · Les Apocryphes éthiopiens · René Basset (French) · 1893
Te'ezaza Sanbat ... accompagné de six autres écrits (Ezra apocalypse) · Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études · J. Halévy (French) · 1902
Baukham, Richard. ""Son of Man": Early Jewish Literature." Chicago : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156842246403941