The Ethiopic Lamentations of Jeremiah (
Geʽez
Geez (; ' , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language originates from what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Today, Geez is used as the main liturgi ...
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pseudepigraphic
Pseudepigrapha (also anglicized as "pseudepigraph" or "pseudepigraphs") are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.Bauckham, Richard; "Pseu ...
text, belonging to the
Old Testament canons of the
Beta Israel and
Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It is not considered canonical by any other
Judeo-Christian groups.
Contents
This
Ethiopic text, first edited by
August Dillmann
Christian Friedrich August Dillmann (25 April 18237 July 1894) was a German orientalist and biblical scholar.
Life
The son of a Württemberg schoolmaster, he was born at Illingen. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, where he became ...
in 1866, consists of eleven chapters:
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See also
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4 Baruch
Fourth Baruch is a pseudepigraphical text of the Old Testament. Paralipomena of Jeremiah appears as the title in several Ancient Greek manuscripts of the work, meaning "things left out of (the Book of) Jeremiah." It is part of the Ethiopian Orth ...
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Beta Israel: §Texts
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Ethiopian canon: §List of books
Notes
Year of work missing
Old Testament pseudepigrapha
Baruch ben Neriah
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