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Ecclesiastes


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Ethiopic Ecclesiastes

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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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Ecclesiastes: Sample, Best Representatives, Minor Recensions, Other Studies
  • Sample of the Text: Ecc 1:1–3, 1:13, 2:3–7, 2:15, 3:16, 4:1, 4:17, 5:1–3, 5:18, 6:12[7:1], 7:12– 14[13–15] , 7:26[27], 8:8–10, 9:9, 10:8, 10:18–20, 11:1, 11:10, 12:1, 12:6–7, 12:10–11, 12:11–14
  • Sample Size: 22.96% of the book.
  • Sample of Manuscripts: 37. BN Abb 35 (17th), BN Abb 55 (15-16th), Cambridge Add. 1570 (1588/9), Davies Axum Zion 1 (l15th), Davies Axum Zion 3 (1664), EMIP 0746 (Chelekot Selasse 5, e19th), EMIP 0752 (Chelekot Selasse 11, 19th), EMIP 1029 (Mihur Gedam 54, 15th), EMIP 1068 (Addis Alem 26, 20th), EMIP 1070 (Addis Alem 28 = A1-IV-96 = EMML 5595, 1914), EMIP 1074 (17th), EMIP 1128 (Addis Alem 86, 1895), EMIP 2007 (Tweed 58, 18th), EMML 38 (l18th), EMML 1481 (e17th), EMML 1768 (l15th), EMML 1917 (e19th), EMML 2080 (16th), EMML 2148 (1611), EMML 2440 (1663), EMML 3407 (19th), EMML 3439 (19th), EMML 6995 (19th), EMML 7103 (1659/60), EMML 7306 (19th), EMML 7584 (16th), Faitlovitch 1 (17-18th), Faitlovitch 2 (15th), Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706), IES 77 (1934), Princeton Garrett Ethiopic 7 (17th), Tanasee 26 (17th), Tanasee 54 (15th), UNESCO 2.14 (18th), UNESCO 2.21 (19th), Vat Cerulli 75 (1931), Vat Cerulli 259 (1531)
  • Number of Data Points Generated: 36,482.
  • Earliest Attested 1 Best Representative – Tanasee 54 (15th).
  • Earliest Attested 2 Best Representative – Bibliothèque nationale Abbadie 55.
  • There are two Earliest Attested outlier manuscripts that are about 5% different from the rest of the Earliest Attested manuscripts, but also differ from one another by about 11%. They are – Bibliothèque nationale Abbadie 35 and Davies Axum Zion 3 (1664).
  • Standardized 1 Best Representative – GG 106 (1682-1706).
  • Standardized 2 Best Representative – EMML 7103 (1659-1660) and EMML 2440 (1663).
  • Standardized 4 Best Representative – Tel Aviv University, Faitlovich 1 (17th).
  • Modern Textus Receptus Best Representative – VatCer 75 (1930-31).
  • Minor Recension (perhaps better referred to merely as two outlier manuscripts): EMML 1917 (e19th) and EMML 3439 (19th) share a number of unique readings, but have a 21% degree of difference from the rest of the tradition. Likewise, these two manuscripts are fully 17% different from one another. Consequently, we cannot refer to this as a coherent cluster until we have more manuscripts.