No English translation of the Ethiopic Octateuch was located. HOLLIS Primo (any,contains,'Ethiopic Octateuch') returns 9 records whose only text-critical items are J. O. Boyd's study 'The text of the Ethiopic version of the Octateuch' (Leiden 1905) and Boyd's edition of the Ge'ez text (The Octateuch in Ethiopic, Leiden 1909-11); none is a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20Octateuch&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 K10plus has exactly one record for 'aethiopisch Octateuch' (a 1978 article on the 'Octateuch of Clement', a canonical collection, not the biblical text), with type 'Text' and no 'Übersetzung' (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Daethiopisch%20Octateuch&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc). The Ge'ez text itself is August Dillmann's Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici tomus primus sive Octateuchus Aethiopicus (Leipzig 1853-55), digitized by the 'Ethiopic Bible' project (https://www.tau.ac.il/~hacohen/Octateuch/Information.html), and the standard monograph, Michael A. Knibb, Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament (Schweich Lectures 1995, OUP 1999), studies translation technique rather than supplying a translation (review: Steven Kaplan, Aethiopica 4 (2001) 227-229, https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.4.1.506). Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT2083Octate (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT2083Octate) records no edition and no translation in its bibliography.
The single largest untranslated block of the Ethiopic Old Testament: the whole 'Orit' is read liturgically and survives in very many manuscripts (the Beta maṣāḥǝft record is a general ID and carries no manuscript list), yet English access is only through the Ge'ez edition. The digitized archive.org scans are Dillmann's edition, not a translation. Boyd's 1909-11 'Octateuch in Ethiopic according to the text of the Paris codex, with the variants of five other manuscripts' is likewise text-only. Where Beta maṣāḥǝft gives a Ge'ez title for a work I quote it; where the record supplies none (Esther, Ezekiel, Daniel, Mäqabǝyan and the Amharic commentaries) the field is left empty rather than supplied from outside.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| The text of the Ethiopic version of the Octateuch, with special reference to the age and value of the Haverford manuscript | Boyd, James Oscar, 1874-1947. "The text of the Ethiopic version of the Octateuch, with special reference to the age and value of the Haverford manuscript." Leyden, E.J. Brill; Princeton, N.J., The University Library, 1905. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022646510203941 |
| Octateuch in Ethiopic: According to the Text of the Paris Codex, With the Variants of Five Other Manuscripts | "Octateuch in Ethiopic: According to the Text of the Paris Codex, With the Variants of Five Other Manuscripts." American Theological Library Association. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153733238703941 |
| The Octateuch in Ethiopic according to the text of the Paris Codex, with the variants of five other manuscripts | "The Octateuch in Ethiopic according to the text of the Paris Codex, with the variants of five other manuscripts." Leyden : E.J. Brill, 1909-1911. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024356250203941 |
| The legend of the Queen of Sheba in the tradition of Axum | "The legend of the Queen of Sheba in the tradition of Axum." Leyden, E. J. Brill; Princeton, N. J., The University Library, 1904. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022651900203941 |
| Congress volume Aberdeen 2019 | "Congress volume Aberdeen 2019." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156706365703941 |