The Kebra Negast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica
by E. A. Wallis Budge
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A sacred text to Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians,The Kebra Nagast tells of the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and their son Menyelik, who hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. This edition of the Ethiopian text is edited by Gerald Hausman, with an introduction by Ziggy Marley.Tags
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I expected something different. I was not prepared for the amount of biblical quotes. I enjoyed the author's recounting of meetings with Jamaicans, and their take on Rastafarianism more than I enjoyed the actual excerpts from that book. Now I'll have to borrow a friend's Torah to see if the chapters about the Ethiopian queen that we are told were deliberately omitted from the Christian Bible are in the Torah, which I believe to be the source for the Old Testament.
read only part in online edition
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E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri show more manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith
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- Africa; Caribbean Region; Ethiopia; Jamaica
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 299.676 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Of African Origin By Particular Movement or Cult Rastafari
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- PJ9101 .E5 .K4313 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Ethiopian languages Ethiopic (Geez)
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