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Ethiopic Ezekiel

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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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Ezekiel: Sample, Best Representatives, Minor Recensions, Other Studies
  • Sample of the Text: Ezekiel chapters 7, 24, and 48
  • Sample Size: 5.5% of the book.
  • Sample of Manuscripts: 25. BNABB35 (17th), BNABB55 (15th), CAM1570 (1588), DAVAZ1 (e16th), EMIP827 (1721-30), EMIP881(17th), EMIP949 (e20th), EMIP1029 (15-16th), EMIP1105 (18th), EMML25 (16th), EMML1768 (l15th), EMML1839(17th), EMML2080 (16th), EMML2082 (16-17th), EMML6686 (17th), EMML7584 (16th), GG63 (15-16th), IES77 (1934), IES721 (15-16th), IES722 (l15th), Tan09 (15th), UNES10.12 (18th), UNES10.34(1931), VATCER75 (1930), UNES2.8 (l19-e20th)
  • Number of Data Points Generated: 67,275.
  • Earliest Attested 1 Best Representative – GG 63 (15-16th) and IES721 (15-16th) both represent the cluster well.
  • Earliest Attested 2 Best Representative – EMML 1768 (l15th).
  • Standardized 1 Best Representative – UNESCO10.12 (18th) and BNAbb35 (17th) both represent the cluster well.
  • Modern Textus Receptus Best Representative – VatCer 75 (1930-31).
  • Minor Recensions:
    1. EMIP 949 (e20th), UNESCO 10.34 (1931), and EMML 7942 (20th, not a part of the sample) represent a minor recension, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with a 48% degree of difference from the rest of the tradition. In this case, the degree of difference between the two in the sample is much higher (about 7%) than in any other book.
    2. UNESCO 2.8 (l19-e20th) stands at about 35% difference from the rest of the tradition.

Recension III

UNESCO 02- National Library 008 contains a unique version of the Book of Ezekiel in Ge’ez, since it is a fresh and direct translation from the Hebrew Text and hence differs from most Geez manuscripts of the Ethiopic Ezekiel that follow the Greek version. The translator is the famous Ethiopian scholar Kidane-Wold, disciple of Kifle-Giorgis, author of also of an original Andemta commentary of the Ethiopic Ezekiel as well as of remarkable Ge'ez-Amharic Dictionary, preceded by a rich grammar of Ge’ez. The Ge’ez text of the Andemta commentary is the same as the text of UNESCO 02- National Library 008.

UNESCO 02- National Library 008, 23x17 cm, has been written in 1914 EC (1922), during the reign of Queen Zewditu, under the command of the regent Emperor Haile Sellassie and has been donated by him to the national Library of Ethiopia in 1936 (1944). It is written on parchment, bound with wooden leather and has one column. After an introduction in Amharic, the text of Ezekiel begins on fol. 10r or on page 29. The scribe is Gebre Medhen. Here is a transcription of the text of Ezekiel in this Recension.