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Book of Isaiah, Ethiopic version

ኢሳይያስ፡ (ʾEsāyǝyās) · Anonymous (Ethiopic Bible translation) · 4th-7th century (translation from Greek) · other · LIT1672Isaiah

Ethiopic · domain: bible · researched 2026-11-13

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

Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT1672Isaiah cites exactly one bibliographic item, 'bm:Bachmann1893Jesaia' - Johannes Bachmann, Der Prophet Jesaia nach der aethiopischen Bibeluebersetzung, I. Teil: Der aethiopische Text (Berlin 1893), a Ge'ez text edition - and no translation (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT1672Isaiah). The edition is digitized at archive.org (https://archive.org/details/derprophetjesai00bachgoog) and by the 'Ethiopic Bible' project (https://www.tau.ac.il/~hacohen/Jesaia/Information.html); both present the Ge'ez text with German philological matter. K10plus 'aethiopisch Jesaja' returns 0 records (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Daethiopisch%20Jesaja&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc), and no English Isaiah of the Ethiopic version appears in HOLLIS Primo (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20Isaiah&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 whose leading hits are Ascension of Isaiah studies, a different work).

The 'Ethiopic Bible' project records that the second part of Bachmann's book, 'Der aethiopische Text in seinem Verhaeltnis zur Septuaginta', 'has apparently never been published', so even the German philological treatment of the Ethiopic Isaiah is incomplete. A 19th-century German text edition is thus, in the catalogues consulted, the only access to the book in a modern language. The Isaiah record in Beta maṣāḥǝft is otherwise an index card with no manuscript list.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain
derprophetjesai00bachgoog
other · PDF scan · Bachmann 1893 edition is public domain; digitization by the 'Ethiopic Bible' project
tau-ethiopic-bible-jesaia

Scanned witnesses

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

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Book of Isaiah Ethiopic version — 10 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Beyond canon : early Christianity and the Ethiopic textual tradition
· 2020 · eng
"Beyond canon : early Christianity and the Ethiopic textual tradition." London [England] : T&T Clark, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158824355003941
Scripture in transition : essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea scrolls in honour of Raija Sollamo
· 2008 · eng, fre, ger
"Scripture in transition : essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea scrolls in honour of Raija Sollamo." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990114972380203941
The Law and the prophets : Old Testament studies prepared in honor of Oswald Thompson Allis
· 1974 · eng
"The Law and the prophets : Old Testament studies prepared in honor of Oswald Thompson Allis." [Nutley, N.J.] : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1974. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990017512330203941
With wisdom as a robe : Qumran and other Jewish studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich
· 2009 · eng, ger
"With wisdom as a robe : Qumran and other Jewish studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich." Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press : in co-operation with the Faculty of Humanities, Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990119778800203941
The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint
· 2021 · eng
"The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint." Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155658614003941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Book of Isaiah, Ethiopic version” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-isaiah