Texts
Solomon and the power of women
- Early Middle Irish, Late Old Irish
- Medieval Irish literature
Early Irish reworking of I Esdras, III ch. 3-4, with Solomon, king of the Greeks, and Nemiasserus replacing Darius and Zorobabel (Zerubbabel).
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]pp. 282a–282bbeginning: ‘Baí rí amra de Grécaib Salemón a ainm’
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]cols 806 (line 7)–807 (line 8)
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Language
- Early Middle Irish Late Old Irish
Textual relationships
Meyer calls the Irish version “curiously distorted and thoroughly Irish”.
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. O'Brien, and Anne O'Sullivan (eds.), The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
Vol. 5: 1231. Diplomatic edition. direct link
[ed.] Pokorny, Julius, A historical reader of Old Irish: texts, paradigms, notes and a complete glossary, Halle, 1923.
12–14 (text); 36–48 (analysis)
[tr.] Herbert, Máire [tr.], and Martin McNamara [notes], “[Old Testament] 8. The power of women”, in: Herbert, Máire, and Martin McNamara (eds), Irish biblical apocrypha: selected texts in translation, Edinburgh: Clark, 1989. 23–24, 169–170.
[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Mary, Eve and the Church (c. 600-1800)”, in: Bourke, Angela (et al., eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 45–165.
104–105 Introduction and translation taken from Irish biblical apocrypha.
Secondary sources (select)
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
September 2011, last updated: December 2020