The Contendings of the Apostles Vol. 2: Being the Histories of the Lives and Martyrdoms and Deaths of the Twelve Apostles and Evangelists; The Ethiopic Texts Now First Edited From Manuscripts in the British Museum With an English Translation

Excerpt from The Contendings of the Apostles Vol. 2: Being the Histories of the Lives and Martyrdoms and Deaths of the Twelve Apostles and Evangelists; The Ethiopic Texts Now First Edited From Manuscripts in the British Museum With an English Translation<br><br>This edition of the Gadla Hawaryat or Contendings of the Apostles and the English translation of the same were begun at the sug gestion of the late Marquess of Bute who was deeply interested in the literature of the ancient Christian people of Egypt; Nubia and Ethiopia. The plan of the edition is due to Lord Bute who approved of the manuscripts which have been followed in the printed text and decided that it was unnecessary to add to it more than a limited number of the variant readings from the late manuscripts as specimens; to have given them all would have required a volume to be devoted to the purpose. The cost of the publi cation of these volumes as well as of several other important Oriental texts and translations was defrayed by his Lordship who followed with interest the progress of the work until his death on the 9th of October 1900 when students of many branches of Ecclesiastical and Oriental re search lost a learned colleague a sympathetic friend and a generous patron.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.