The Kebra Nagast, var. Kebra Negast (Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic of Ethiopia, written in...

Menelik I; its definitive and best-known formulation is set forth in the Kebra Nagast. However, there is no historical evidence supporting the legends or Yekuno...

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...

[Egypt], from thy going up towards Arthur [Assyria]." The 14th century Kebra Nagast says "And therefore the children of Ishmael became kings over Tereb,...

Ethiopia's history as recorded and elaborated in a 13th-century treatise, the Kebra Nagast, asserts descent from a retinue of Israelites who returned with Makeda...

the Kebra Nagast as a "pastiche of legends" created to legitimize Yekuno Amlak's seizure of power. David Northrup notes that the Kebra Nagast's imaginative...

around it, on which was built the great city of Rome." According to the Kebra Nagast of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pharaoh's daughter tricked...

of Solomon. The most extensive version of the legend appears in the Kebra Nagast (Glory of the Kings), the Ethiopian national saga, translated from Arabic...

from South Arabia. In the medieval Ethiopian cultural work called the Kebra Nagast, Sheba was located in Ethiopia. Some scholars therefore point to a region...

constitutions, the concepts of Ethiopian government had been codified in the Kebra Nagast (which presented the concept that the legitimacy of the Emperor of Ethiopia...

Annunciation to Mary. In the Ethiopian fourteenth-century text of the Kebra Nagast, Aaron's rod is broken in three and probably a symbol of the Trinity:...

(سُلَيْمَان ٱلْحَكِيْم, "Sulayman the Wise"). This story is adapted in the Kebra Nagast, but as a dispute adjudicated by a son of Sulayman. The Quran narrates...

North Arabian 𐪌𐪔𐪆 (ngś), meaning "the ruler." Emperor of Ethiopia Kebra Nagast Najashi Haile Selassie, Western Education, and Political Revolution in...

occasionally discovered bound within manuscript books alongside the Kebra Nagast and other works. This compilation provides numerous insights into the...

which Bruce asserts was revered throughout Abyssinia equally with the Kebra Nagast. Scholars like Johann Michaelis and Rosenmuller have pointed out that...

popular of these include Saint Mary, Saint George and Saint Michael. The Kebra Nagast is often said to have been composed to legitimise the Solomonic dynasty...

Ethiopian Empire Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles Solomonic dynasty Kebra Nagast Rubenson, Sven (1965). "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Christian Symbol...

king as an early example of Judaic influence in Ethiopian culture. The Kebra Nagast and Ethiopian historical tradition states that Kaleb had two sons, Israel...

to the Kebra Nagast) by saying it was descended from Moses and his Ethiopian wife.[citation needed] Most of the Beta Israel consider the Kebra Negast...

cited the Fetha Negest as an inspiration to the codification commission. Kebra Nagast Tegegne, Habtamu (2017). "The Edict of King Gälawdéwos Against the IllegalSlave...

Amlak, whose successors came to be known as the Solomonic dynasty. The Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, established the dynasty's claim of direct...

of the Covenant and became leader of the Zar cult. According to the Kebra Nagast Gebre Meskel was the youngest son of Kaleb and succeeded him to the throne...

Budge, in his preface to the second edition of his translation of the Kebra Nagast, claims that Brancaleon was a monk who had come to Ethiopia to convert...

their goal is to repatriate to Ethiopia, or to Zion. The Ge'ez-language Kebra Nagast serves as inspiration for the idea that the "Glory of Zion" transferred...

survival despite its distance from its patriarch in Alexandria. The Kebra Nagast is considered Holy Scripture in Ethiopia and is available in print.[1]...

Empire Lianja, a Central African epic Mwindo epic, a Central African epic Kebra Nagast, an Ethiopian epic Popol Vuh, a K'iche' epic Diné Bahaneʼ, a Navajo epic...

epic Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the Ethiopian national epic Kebra Nagast, the legends of Prester John, and the iconography of Chartres Cathedral...

intermarried with Sidama. The earliest surviving mention of Hadiya is in the Kebra Nagast (ch. 94), indicating that the kingdom was in existence by the 13th century...

of Israel. The meeting of Makeda and Solomon is recorded in the text Kebra Nagast. The Biblical events of the flood and the fall of the Tower of Babel...

medieval Ethiopian historiography due to works such as the Orthodox Kebra Nagast. This reinforced the genealogical traditions of Ethiopia's Solomonic...