![]() The importance of the book, both for the kings and the people of Abyssinia, is clearly shown by the letter that King John of Ethiopia wrote to the late Lord Granville in August, 1872. " This work has been held in peculiar honour in Abyssinia for several centuries, and throughout that country it has been, and still is, venerated by the people as containing the final proof of their descent from the Hebrew Patriarchs, and of the kinship of their kings of the Solomonic line with Christ, the Son of God. THIS volume contains a complete English translation of the famous Ethiopian work, The "KEBRA NAGAST," i.e. ![]() IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND BOSTON, MASS., MCMXXII. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED WITH 31 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ETHIOPIC MSS. KEEPER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., D.LITT., LIT.D., F.S.A., SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND TYRWHITT HEBREW SCHOLAR. A COMPLETE TRANSLATION of the KEBRA NAGAST WITH INTRODUCTION BY SIR E. THE QUEEN of SHEBA & her only SON MENYELEKÄ«EING THE HISTORY of the DEPARTURE OF GOD & HIS ARK of THE COVENANT FROM JERUSALEM TO ETHIOPIA, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT of THE RELIGION OF THE HEBREWS & THE SOLOMONIC LINE OF KINGS IN THAT COUNTRY.
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