Kebra Nagast
14th-century text about the Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia
Kebra Nagast
The Kebra Nagast (Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, Kəbrä Nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by Nebure Id Yeshaq of Aksum. In its existing form, the text is at least 700 years old and purports to trace the origins of the Solomonic dynasty, a line of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian monarchs who ruled the country until 1974, to the biblical king, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba through Menelik I and thus how the Ethiopian Emperors purportedly descended from the Davidic line as did Jesus. Modern scholarship considers its stories to have been largely created to legitimize the dynasty's rise to power in Ethiopia in the 13th century. Nevertheless, many Ethiopian Christians continue to believe it is a historically reliable work. The text contains an account of how the Queen of Sheba (Queen Makeda of Ethiopia) met king Solomon of Israel and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with their son Menelik I (Menyelek). It also discusses the conversion...
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