{
  "dataset_title": "English Translation Source Index for Ethiopian Bible Study",
  "version": "1.0",
  "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
  "methodology": "Source and bibliographic inspection. No physical-copy testing, verse-by-verse translation assessment or exhaustive canon-coverage certification. Empty ISBN means no ISBN verified for the exact listed source.",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "enoch-hermeneia-2012",
      "title": "1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation",
      "contributors": "George W. E. Nickelsburg; James C. VanderKam",
      "publisher_or_host": "Fortress Press",
      "edition_date": "2012-10-01",
      "isbn": "9780800699109; ebook 9781451424379",
      "coverage": "1 Enoch",
      "textual_basis": "Publisher describes Ethiopic, Greek and Dead Sea Aramaic evidence",
      "access_scope": "Publisher metadata and samples; complete individual-work edition offered separately",
      "evidence_type": "Publisher record",
      "source_url": "https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800699109/1-Enoch",
      "rights_note": "Copyrighted edition; linking does not grant republication rights",
      "limitation": "Not a complete Ethiopian Bible; no physical-copy or verse-by-verse evaluation",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "jubilees-hermeneia-2020",
      "title": "Jubilees: The Hermeneia Translation",
      "contributors": "James C. VanderKam",
      "publisher_or_host": "Fortress Press",
      "edition_date": "2020-09-01",
      "isbn": "9781506467030; ebook 9781506467047",
      "coverage": "Jubilees",
      "textual_basis": "Translation and selected notes drawn from larger Hermeneia commentary; publisher describes use of available textual evidence",
      "access_scope": "Publisher metadata; complete individual-work edition offered separately",
      "evidence_type": "Publisher record",
      "source_url": "https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506467030/Jubilees",
      "rights_note": "Copyrighted edition; no full-text reuse permission established",
      "limitation": "Not a complete Ethiopian Bible; edition scope established from publisher",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "enoch-knibb-1978",
      "title": "The Ethiopic Book of Enoch: A New Edition in the Light of the Aramaic Dead Sea Fragments",
      "contributors": "Michael A. Knibb; in consultation with Edward Ullendorff",
      "publisher_or_host": "Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press; record hosted by Indiana University",
      "edition_date": "1978",
      "isbn": "0198261632 (catalogue ISBN)",
      "coverage": "1 Enoch; two-volume scholarly edition",
      "textual_basis": "Ethiopic and English; facsimile of Rylands Ethiopic MS 23; critical apparatus and commentary",
      "access_scope": "Library metadata; holdings and external access options",
      "evidence_type": "University library catalogue",
      "source_url": "https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/1817124",
      "rights_note": "Bibliographic record does not grant text reuse rights",
      "limitation": "Confirm which volume or volumes a seller includes; not full canon",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "enoch-charles-1917",
      "title": "The Book of Enoch",
      "contributors": "R. H. Charles, translator; W. O. E. Oesterley, introduction",
      "publisher_or_host": "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Internet Sacred Text Archive",
      "edition_date": "1917",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "1 Enoch historical translation",
      "textual_basis": "Historical Charles English edition identified on title page",
      "access_scope": "Online historical text; web-reader access interface may change",
      "evidence_type": "Digitized title page and reading host",
      "source_url": "https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe000.htm",
      "rights_note": "Host identifies US public-domain status; inspect file and jurisdiction-specific terms before reproducing",
      "limitation": "Predates later discoveries and research; not identical to modern Hermeneia or every Charles edition",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "jubilees-charles-1917",
      "title": "The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis",
      "contributors": "R. H. Charles, translator; G. H. Box, introduction",
      "publisher_or_host": "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/Macmillan; Internet Sacred Text Archive",
      "edition_date": "1917",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "Jubilees historical translation",
      "textual_basis": "Title page identifies translation from Ethiopic text",
      "access_scope": "Online historical text; web-reader access interface may change",
      "evidence_type": "Digitized title page and reading host",
      "source_url": "https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jub/jub00.htm",
      "rights_note": "Host states US public-domain text and a noncommercial file-use notice; link rather than rehost files commercially",
      "limitation": "Historical edition; no claim that this is the same setting as Charles 1902 or 1913 editions",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "meqabyan1-curtin-2018",
      "title": "First Book of Ethiopian Maccabees: (I Meqabyan)",
      "contributors": "D. P. Curtin; Bekele Tesfaye credited in bibliographic listings",
      "publisher_or_host": "Dalcassian Press; Google Books record",
      "edition_date": "2018-12-05",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "1 Meqabyan",
      "textual_basis": "Not independently established from a critical apparatus in this review",
      "access_scope": "Bibliographic record and available preview; individual-work edition offered separately",
      "evidence_type": "Publisher-supplied book metadata via Google Books",
      "source_url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/First_Book_of_Ethiopian_Maccabees.html?id=bDq-DwAAQBAJ",
      "rights_note": "No full-text republication permission established",
      "limitation": "Publication verified; translation accuracy, full verse coverage and church approval not independently established",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "meqabyan2-curtin-2023",
      "title": "Second Book of Ethiopian Maccabees: (II Meqabyan)",
      "contributors": "D. P. Curtin; Bekele Tesfaye",
      "publisher_or_host": "Dalcassian Press; Google Books record",
      "edition_date": "2023-08-01",
      "isbn": "9798869211484",
      "coverage": "2 Meqabyan",
      "textual_basis": "Not independently established from a critical apparatus in this review",
      "access_scope": "Bibliographic record and available preview; individual-work edition offered separately",
      "evidence_type": "Publisher-supplied book metadata via Google Books",
      "source_url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Second_Book_of_Ethiopian_Maccabees.html?id=cALaEAAAQBAJ",
      "rights_note": "No full-text republication permission established",
      "limitation": "Publication verified; translation accuracy, full verse coverage and church approval not independently established",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "ubs-tips-geez",
      "title": "Geʽez language-specific translation insights",
      "contributors": "United Bible Societies/TIPs; Haileyesus Woldemariam; Abraham Haile; Masahiro Kubota; named underlying translators",
      "publisher_or_host": "Translation Insights and Perspectives (TIPs)",
      "edition_date": "Undated resource; checked 2026-11-02",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "Source notes and verse-related material for Enoch, Jubilees, Meqabyan and 4 Baruch",
      "textual_basis": "Geʽez church text with credited English translations or adaptations; work-specific notes",
      "access_scope": "Translation resource and verse insights; not verified as a complete downloadable canon",
      "evidence_type": "Bible-translation organization source",
      "source_url": "https://tips.translation.bible/tip_language/gez/",
      "rights_note": "Some underlying English material credited to copyrighted editions or used with permission; no general reuse licence established",
      "limitation": "Do not infer full-book availability from attribution or a verse-resource entry",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "parjer-kraft-1987",
      "title": "English Translation of the Longer and Shorter Versions of the Paraleipomena Jeremiou",
      "contributors": "Robert A. Kraft; Ann Elizabeth Purintun (longer-version basis); William Newby (shorter translation)",
      "publisher_or_host": "University of Pennsylvania, Center for Computer Analysis of Texts",
      "edition_date": "1987-12-15 electronic edition; longer-version basis 1971/1972",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "Longer and shorter Paraleipomena Jeremiou/4 Baruch versions",
      "textual_basis": "Greek textual tradition represented by specified longer and shorter versions",
      "access_scope": "Full English versions on source page",
      "evidence_type": "University-hosted translator electronic edition",
      "source_url": "https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/publics/pseudepig/ParJer-Eng.html",
      "rights_note": "Header allows noncommercial use with attribution and further conditions; no commercial rehosting permission established",
      "limitation": "A Greek-version comparator; not established as identical to the Ethiopic recension",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    },
    {
      "id": "nets-electronic",
      "title": "A New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS): Electronic Edition",
      "contributors": "Albert Pietersma; Benjamin G. Wright, editors; named book translators",
      "publisher_or_host": "NETS project/University of Pennsylvania; Oxford University Press print edition",
      "edition_date": "Electronic masters of 2009 second printing; later errata linked",
      "isbn": "",
      "coverage": "Greek Jewish Scriptures in NETS contents; supplemental comparison resource",
      "textual_basis": "Greek Septuagint and related Greek translations; work-specific introductions",
      "access_scope": "Book-level PDF texts on project site",
      "evidence_type": "Official translation-project site",
      "source_url": "https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/",
      "rights_note": "Personal scholarly download permitted; source prohibits sale/redistribution of files",
      "limitation": "Not an Ethiopian Bible; Greek Maccabees is not Ethiopian Meqabyan; Enoch/Jubilees absent from listed corpus",
      "checked_on": "2026-11-02",
      "complete_ethiopian_canon": "No: selected resource only"
    }
  ]
}
