Kebra Nagast

Kebra Nagast — Budge — Section 1

PJ 9101 , K4 1922 The Queen of Sheba ' " BT THE SAME AUTHOR. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE PAPYRUS OF ANI, Scribe and Treasurer of the Temples of Egypt, about 1450 b.c. A facsimile coloured reproduction in 37 folding plates, with hieroglyphic Transcript, Translation and Introduction. New Edition, revised throughout and enlarged. In 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. OSIRIS AND THE EGYPTIAN RESURRECTION With nearly 200 illustrations, including folding frontispiece in colour and 4 plates in collotype. In 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA & HER ONLY SON MENYELEK Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library https://archive.org/details/queenofshebaheroOOkebr PLATE I From Brit. Mus. MS. Orient. No. 481, fol. 110a God Almighty the Ancient of Days ( Daniel vii, 9) surrounded by the “ living creatures ” seen by Ezekiel (i, 10) y ur rtf ,\'rr K eb ra VI C\ i~-\ b> 1 o 7 1922 A A HE QUE ^?//)e/CM S£^\^ of SHEBA e? only SON MENYELEK BEING THE HISTORY of the DEPARTURE OF GOD SP HIS ARK of THE COVENANT FROM JERUSALEM TO ETHIOPIA, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT of THE RELIGION OF THE HEBREWS SP THE SOLOMONIC LINE OF KINGS IN THAT COUNTRY. A COMPLETE TRANSLATION of the KEBRA NAG AST WITH INTRODUCTION BY SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., D.LITT., LIT.D., F.S.A., SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAM¬ BRIDGE, AND TYRWHITT HEBREW SCHOLAR. KEEPER OF THE DEPART¬ MENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED WITH 31 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ETHIOPIC MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND BOSTON, MASS., MCMXXII. First edition . Feb., 1922. Reprinted ------ April , 1922. PREFACE