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Deuteronomy


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Ethiopic Deuteronomy

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Aligned
Texts
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Variants
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Words
Profile
Match
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Dendrogram
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The jpeg shows the Dendrogram produced by feeding the R file and a CSV (comma separated values) file into the R program to generate a dendrogram. The colored boxes and stars represent our interpretation of the dendrogram, and become our working hypothesis for investigation of the book. Click the image on the left the dendrogram. Click the image on the right to see a video on THEOT Dendrograms and How to Use them.

THEOT
Text
Viewer
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Best
Representative
Manuscripts
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Minority Variants
in the 14-16th Centuries (EthI) and their Fate in the 17-20th Centuries (EthII)
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New Readings
from the
17th to the 20th Centuries
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Deuteronomy: Sample, Best Representatives, Minor Recensions, Other Studies
  • Sample of the Text: Deuteronomy 1:15, 39–40; 2:3, 11; 3:11, 20; 4:12, 45; 5:15–19; 6:18; 7:15, 17, 22–23; 8:18; 9:18; 11:10, 21, 23; 12:2; 13:2, 4–5; 14:7, 15:2, 15, 18; 16:15–16; 17:5, 19; 18:5; 19:5–6, 21; 21:4, 7, 15; 22:1; 23:13, 18; 24:2, 5; 25:4; 26:18–19; 27:3–4; 28:19, 53; 29:20; 30:7, 9; 31:1, 9, 15, 21; 32:2, 8, 22–23; 33, 44–45; 34:4, and 6.
  • Sample Size: 9.36% of the book.
  • Sample of Manuscripts: 32. IES 77 (1934), EMIP 683 (18th), Dav Maq 1 (1409-1410), Dav Keb 1 (1417-1418), EMIP 754 (l18th), EMML 39 (19th), IES 294 (15th), EMIP 743 (18th), EMIP 2111 (17-18th), EMML 510 (18th), EMIP 1115 (1895-1896), EMML 7637 (16th), Dav Dab Bizan 1 (16th), EMML 9001 (e15th), Vat Cer 75 (1930), GG 60 (16th), GG 101 (15-16th), EMML 1842 (17th), EMML 1929a (1434-1468), EMML 2098 (15th), EMML 2388 (1768), EMML 2436 (1663), EMML 6359 (1678), EMML 6557 (1894), EMIP 1037+1038 (15th), BL 480 (15th), BL 481 (17th), Cam 1570 (1588), Martini Eth 2 (1438), EthioSPaRe AQG-008 (17th), EthioSPaRe Qaqama Qeddest Maryam Orit (1664), EthioSPaRe UM40 C3-IV-69 (1250-1349).
  • Number of Data Points Generated: 60,736.
  • Earliest Attested 1 Best Representative – BL480 (15th).
  • Earliest Attested 2 Best Representative – IES294 (15th).
  • Standardized / Modern Textus Receptus Best Representative – EMIP 743 (18th).
  • Minor Recensions: Though EMML 1929 (1434-68), Addi Qwolqwol Giyorgis (16th), and Cambridge 1570 (1588) all showed a high degree of difference (up to 17%) from the majority of the tradition and from one another, they do not bear witness to a minor recension.
  • Steve Delamarter and Ralph Lee published an article: “Identifying the cluster membership of previously unstudied manuscripts witnessing to the textual history of Ethiopic Deuteronomy” in Der Perlentaucher, Festschrift for Stefan Weninger, (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2024), pp. 49-88.