The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 395 



we must next discuss. Note that a reference to the rising and setting 

 of the sun occurs also in the "ab oriente ad occasum' of the para- 

 phrase of the Pistis Sophia. 



Egyptian Versions, Bibliography-. 



For general discussions see Lightfoot and Headlam in Scrivener, 

 K.Lake in Encycl. Brit, under "Bible", Kenyon in his "Handbook 

 to the Textual Criticism of the N. T.", Burkitt, in Encycl. Bib. "Texts 

 and ^'ersions," and Robinson in Hasting's D.B. "Egyptian Versions," 



For lists of MSS containing portions of the Coptic Bible see Hyver- 

 nat. Revue Biblique, Internationale, 1896, No. 4, p. 54ff. and 1897 

 No. 1, pp. 55-62, cf. also 48 f. 



The best full collections are said to be in \A'oide, Appendix ad 

 editionem N, T. Graeci, Oxford, 1799 and Amelineau, ZAS 1886-1888 

 with Crum's Coptic MSS brought from Fayyum. 



The Bohairic Version has been edited by G. Horner, "The Coptic 

 Version of the New Testament in the 'Northern Dialect, otherwise 

 called Memphitic or Bohairic, with Introduction, Critical Apparatus, 

 and literal English Translation, Vol. I, Int^od. Mt. Mk. Oxford, 1898. 



Compare also Sanday, Appendices to the New Testament, p. 187 

 and Hyvernat, Revue Biblique Internationale, 1897, No. 1, p. 48f. 



The Sahidic Version has recently been edited (by G. Horner 

 apparently) in "The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the 

 Southern Dialect, otherwise called the Sahidic and Thebaic, Oxford, 

 1911. 



The Ethiopic Version 



The Ethiopic Version is the name commonly given to the version 

 in Ge'ez, the classical language of the Abyssinians. 



The tradition of the Abyssinian Church states that this version was 

 made from the Greek before the fifth century. Dillmann accepts this 

 tradition as correct for the following reasoris : (Charles, H.D.B. in loco). 



1. Christianity was firmly established in Abyssinia by the fifth 

 century. 



2. Jared, poet and musician, issued a hymnal for that church in the 

 sixth century. 



3. Chrysostom appears to have known an Ethiopic \'ersion of the 

 Bible. 



4. Only in the first period did the Ethiopic Church translate directly 

 Traxs. Conn. Acad., Vol. XVIII. 27 February, 1915. 



