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Kebra Negast The Kings Of Truth
“Kebra Negast”: The New beginning of a Religion entrusted to a tribe when the Covenant of Ark was bestowed upon them
This article will analyze some of the important topics of history and the significance of the Kebra Negast as it pertains to Christianity in Ethiopia and how the religion arrived. This essay will converge upon the fundamental principles and originators and their contributions to the Christian religion in .

The Historical Background:
The literary work presented as the Kebra Negast "the Kings of glory" is an excerpt to a plethora of books describing or recounting an event that happened in Christianity's history. Also it brought the different beliefs and actuality of the history and religion together to form a cohesive story; these
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Once this knowledge was understood to be the truth by Makeda she went back to her native land to spread the word of a new-found divinity. When Makeda Arrived home she had a son who is symbolic of the dream that Solomon had because it shows that he passes a piece of divinity from God to his son and kept his bloodline alive in a new land away from Israel.
When their son Menelik becomes of age he makes a journey back to to meet his father and was welcomed with open arms. After offering Menelik the throne of Israel and being denied, Solomon gathered his men and sent they’re first born sons back to Ethiopia with his son. The first born sons of were very saddened by the departure so they came up with a plan to take the lady of with them

because they believed that she was in them. When the children of removed the tabernacles they transferred it to Menelik’s people. This conveyed that Menelik has the seed of Solomon and this fact strengthened the idea of Christianity in
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This historical book is viewed as a Holy Bible to the Ethiopic culture. The Kebra Negast contains “the law of the whole of Ethiopia”. One of the earliest translations of the book was organized by an Egyptian priest around the sixth century A.D., which means that his translation was written in Coptic. Later translations of the book were written in Arabic, Ethiopic, and English. James Bruce delivered the Kebra Nagast to Europe around the eighteenth century, and people started to take interest in the book during the European conquest. This book is still being used throughout the as of

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