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The Kebra Nagast, var. Kebra Negast (Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century [1] national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by the nebure id Ishaq of Aksum.
Contained with some manuscripts of the Kebra Nagast. Some versions omit Dil Na'od and other kings after Armah, and insert queen Esato/Gudit. – 14 33 Pedro Páez's List 3 (44 names). [16] This list begins with Senfa Asgued and ends with Armah II, but includes Dil Na'od and lists Gudit and Esato as two separate rulers.
The Kebra Nagast (var. Kebra Negast', Ge'ez, ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäst), or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia.
Historian Harold G. Marcus describes the stories of the Kebra Nagast as a "pastiche of legends" created to legitimize Yekuno Amlak's seizure of power. [6] David Northrup notes that the Kebra Nagast's imaginative and emotive account of a line of descent from Solomon and Sheba to the kings of Aksum and the new Solomonic dynasty is highly ...
Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, Mənilək) was the legendary first Emperor of Ethiopia.According to Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.
The Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, describes the dynasty's claim to descent from Solomon, [26] and was used to justify the takeover from the Zagwe dynasty. The epic states that the Kingdom of Aksum was founded by Menelik I , who was allegedly the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba , known as Makeda in Ethiopia. [ 14 ]
CHRONIQUE DE JEAN, EVEQUE DE NIKIOU (ክብረ ነገሥት Kebra Nagast, or "the Glory of the Kings”.), Chronique de Tabari / Abū-Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧarīr Ibn-Yāzid aṭ- Ṭabarī, Paris 1867–1871.
Although the Kebra Nagast indicates that the emperors of Rome or Constantinople and Ethiopia were descended from the Israelite king Solomon, there is an emphatically anti-Jewish sentiment expressed in several passages of the book. [29]