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THE 'BOOK OF THE GLORY OF KINGS' (KEBRA NAGAST) A WORK WHICH IS ALIKE THE TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISH- MENT OF THE RELIGION OF THE HEBREWS IN ETHIOPIA, AND THE PATENT OF SOVEREIGNTY WHICH IS NOW UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED IN ABYSSINIA AS THE SYMBOL OF THE DIVINE AUTHORITY TO RULE WHICH THE KINGS OF THE SOLOMONIC LINE CLAIMED TO HAVE RECEIVED THROUGH THEIR DESCENT FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID |
Translated from the Ethiopic
by
SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE
M.A., LITT.D., D.LITT., LIT.D. F.S.A.
| Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, and Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiqui- ties in the British Museum. |
WITH THIRTY-TWO PLATES
MCMXXXII
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD