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EA-CORPORA-20 — The Twentieth Seating: The Ethiopian Canon in Ge'ez, the Kebra Nagast, the Apocalypses and Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple, and Euclid, Each in Its Original Language

Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-23 · deposit #1698
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EA-CORPORA-20 seats four new collections on the archive's originals shelf and completes a fifth, each in the language of its earliest surviving witness: 121 works and about 473,000 lines. The Ethiopian canon is seated in Ge'ez from the TEI editions of Beta maṣāḥǝft (Universität Hamburg, CC BY-SA 4.0): 104 works, the Old Testament with the books the Ethiopian church alone keeps whole as scripture (Jubilees, the three books of Meqabyan, the Ethiopic Ezra, 4 Baruch), the New Testament, and the Sinodos canons, with R. H. Charles's editions of the Ethiopic Jubilees (1895) and the Ascension of Isaiah (1900) as scans. The Kebra Nagast, the Glory of the Kings, is seated whole in Ge'ez. The seat of 1 Enoch, opened in August with Charles's and Dillmann's editions as scans, receives the Ge'ez text layer it had queued. The Second Temple apocalypses and pseudepigrapha the shelf lacked are seated in the original language of each one's earliest witness, in the standard public-domain editions: the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Sibylline Oracles in Greek, 3 Baruch and the Greek apocalypses of Moses and Esdras, 4 Ezra in Latin with its eastern versions, 2 Baruch in Syriac, the Apocalypse of Abraham in Slavonic, Ben Sira in the Hebrew of the Cairo Genizah, the Letter of Aristeas, and Joseph and Aseneth. Euclid's Elements is seated in Heiberg's Greek, with the Data, the Optics and the Phaenomena. 2 Enoch, which survives only in Slavonic, is queued: the open editions found are translations. Each seat holds the files as fetched, scans where the page is the witness, one text per work, a provenance record with verified loci and a SHA-256 manifest, and has a spine and a card on the Training Layer Literature originals shelf. It is the first of three seatings from one request; Mesoamerica and Egypt follow in EA-CORPORA-21, the Hermetica, Mesopotamia, the Avesta and the Rig Veda in EA-CORPORA-22.