Words of Moses / Colloquy of Moses with God on Mount Sinai (Christian recension)

ነገረ፡ ሙሴ፡ (Nagara Muse) · Anonymous (God's replies to Moses; Christian recension) · composition date unknown; translated into Gǝʿǝz from an Arabic Vorlage · apocryphon · LIT2052Nagara

Ethiopic · domain: apocrypha · 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 Masaheft LIT2052Nagara cites only CAVT, Goldschmidt's 1897 catalogue and two studies by Rochus Zuurmond (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/2001-3000/LIT2052Nagara.xml); no translation is listed there. The text is absent from the standard English corpora: neither the table of contents of Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha nor that of Sparks's Apocryphal Old Testament (checked in full at https://archive.org/download/TheApocryphalOldTestamentSPARKS/The-Apocryphal-Old-Testament_SPARKS_djvu.txt) contains it. HOLLIS queries 'Nagara Muse' and 'Words of Moses Ethiopic apocryphon' return no edition or translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Words%20of%20Moses%20Ethiopic%20apocryphon&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 OpenAlex likewise returns only unrelated items. A separate Beta ʾƐsrāʾel version exists (LIT5872NagaraMGen / LIT5873NagaraMBE).

A responsa-style dialogue in two parts. 'None' here means no English translation was located in the standard outlets, catalogues and corpora checked; a Dutch or German rendering by Zuurmond cannot be excluded, since his studies are cited but not examined directly.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC-BY-SA 4.0 LIT2052Nagara

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: Words of Moses Colloquy of Moses with God — 3 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
The lollipop trollops and other poems Theroux, Alexander · 1992 · eng	Theroux, Alexander. "The lollipop trollops and other poems." Elmwood Park, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, c1992. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990026076390203941
Treasury of philosophy Runes, Dagobert D. (Dagobert David), 1902- · 1955 · eng	Runes, Dagobert D. (Dagobert David), 1902-. "Treasury of philosophy." New York : Philosophical Library, 1955. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022347880203941
Australian poetry since 1788 · 2011 · eng	"Australian poetry since 1788." Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990133559560203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Words of Moses / Colloquy of Moses with God on Mount Sinai (Christian recension)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-nagara-muse