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The Ethiopian shelf

Books that survived whole only in Ethiopia, in Ge'ez, the classical language of its church and its kings. A queen of Ethiopia and King Solomon, the Ark carried to Aksum, angels who fell for human women. In the press now; each one opens when readers press it.

The Kebra Nagast: Queen Azeb (Sheba) meets King Solomon, Ethiopian painting, Tropenmuseum
The Kebra Nagast
the Glory of the Kings · Ethiopia
14th century · Solomon, the queen of Sheba and the Ark
read the opening
The Book of Enoch: an illuminated Ge'ez page from the Gunda Gunde Gospels, Ethiopia, c. 1540
The Book of Enoch
1 Enoch · the Ethiopic Bible
3rd–1st century BC · the Watchers, kept whole only in Ge'ez
read the opening
The Book of the Watchers — interlinear Greek–English
The Book of the Watchers
attributed to Enoch
the same Watchers chapters in Greek · free to read now
read it now

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