4.6.1 The Ethiopic Version of Ben Sira

4.6.1.1 Introduction

The majority of the Ethiopic manuscripts of Ben Sira are from the sixteenth through the twentieth century. Dillmann prepared a critical edition of Ben Sira in 1894, in which he used seven manuscripts: Eth^{Tübingen 19} (fifteenth/sixteenth century); Eth^{D’ Abbadie 55} (sixteenth century); Eth^{D’ Abbadie 35} (seventeenth century); Eth^{Frank Rüpp II, 7} (eighteenth century); Eth^{Ber Peter I…}