New Ethiopic witnesses to some Old Testament pseudepigrapha

Abstract Despite noteworthy critical editions of each having appeared within the last twenty-five years, the textual states of Jubilees , the Testaments of the Three Patriarchs , and the Ascension of Isaiah remain in flux due to the continued discovery of previously unknown exemplars. Nowhere is this more evident than in their Ethiopic versions, as copies of a multitude of manuscripts attesting these pseudepigrapha have become readily accessible in recent years. Consequently, it is now possible to append twenty Ge‘ez manuscripts to the hitherto recognized evidence for Jubilees , and five and two further witnesses to the published lists for the Testaments of the Three Patriarchs and the Ascension of Isaiah respectively.