The Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo

The Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo possesses a small collection of ten Ethiopic codices predominantly acquired in the mid1930s. Included among them are an illuminated fifteenth-century psalter (UEM36096) and a late-fifteenth/early-sixteenth century hagiographical manuscript (UEM35900)

The Ethiopic Jannes and Jambres and the Greek Original

Publication of a fragment of Jannes and Jambres in Ge‘ez, together with new editions of relevant parts of the Greek papyri and observations on the reconstruction of the book. // A recently identified fragment of an Ethiopic translation of the Old Testament apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres sheds much new light on the book, of which we are preparing a complete integrated edition with English translation. We present below (I) the editio princeps of the Ethiopic text and (II) revised editions of related parts of the Greek, including several new joins, followed by a brief account of the structure of the work in the light of the evidence now available

References to the \u3ci\u3eShepherd of Hermas\u3c/i\u3e at the Monastery of Gunda Gundē

The monastery of Gunda Gundē played a significant historical role in preserving the Ethiopic translation of the Shepherd of Hermas, but its relationship to the book was not simply as a passive guardian. As witnessed through a few locally-produced commentary manuscripts referencing this work, at least some monks actively engaged theologically with it. Their interest in the Shepherd may have been stimulated in part by writings alluding to Hermas authored by the fourteenth-century Ethiopian theologian Retu‘a Hāymānot, copies of which were also held by the monastery