A modern translation of the kebra nagast download pdf. The kebra nagast tells the legend of the queen of shebas son, menyelek, whom she concieved by the great judaic king solomon. It argues that the old testament gives an accurate account of the history of the hebrew people and israelite states ca. This story is told in the remarkable book of kebra nagast the glory of the kings and. The kebra negast the glory of the kings, of which this book is a translation, is an ethiopian work which is held in high regard because it is proof of the lineage of the ethiopian people which can be traced back to the bloodline of solomon.
This book has been held in the highest honor in ethiopia for several centuries and has been, and still is, venerated by the people as containing the final proof of their. This work has been held in peculiar honour in abyssinia for several. These pages were excised by royal decree from the authorized 1611 king james. The kebra nagast tells the legend of the queen of shebas son by king solomon, menyelek also known herein as baynalehkem and david ii. Kebra nagast the glory of the kings, and related evidence to offer a third possibility. The kebra nagast, or the book of the glory of kings, is an account written in geez of the origins of the solomonic line of the emperors of ethiopia. The queen of sheba and her only son menyelek kbra nagast. The queen of sheeba kebra nagast download the complete, free. This book has been held in the highest honor in ethiopia for several centuries and has been, and still is, venerated by the people as containing the final proof of their descent from the hebrew.
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Compiled by a coptic priest in the 6th century ad, from much older material, the kebra nagast is a remarkable mixture of legends and traditions, some historical and some of. Menyelek engineers a plot to take the tabernacle of the law of god i. The kebra nagast index internet sacred text archive. The davidic paradigm of power or, more broadly, the old testament king.
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