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| THE 'BOOK OF THE GLORY OF KINGS' (KEBRA NAGAST) A WORK WHICH IS ALIKE THE
TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT 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 Antiquities in the British Museum. |
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