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The Ge'ez (Ethiopic) Witness to the Text of Revelation 16:5
Statement of the Issue In the last decade, the Ethiopic has sometimes been brought out as an alleged versional witness to Beza’s amended reading of Revelation 16:5. Instead of “εἶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ὅσιος,” in 1582 Beza argued that the text should be “εἶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐσόμενος.” …
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Miscellaneous notes about the 1549 Ethiopic
Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament is a 2007 Brill book by Robert Wilkinson. Pages 68-70 provide some insight into the background of the printing of the 1548-9 Ethiopic (Ge’ez) Bible. Evidently, the printing was based on a single manuscript that had recently arrived in…