Abstract
IN 1931 I published a study of the Old Ethiopic Version of I. Kings and its Affinities (JBL 50). I have now turned my attention to the Armenian text of I. and II. Kings and shall in this paper present a resume of my observations on the provenance and affinities of these two books in the Armenian translation.1 In making the collations there were used the Greek text of Swete and also the variants recorded in Holmes-Parsons. Three Armenian texts were available: Mechithar's ed. of the Holy Scriptures, Venice, 1733; Zohrab's ed. of the Armenian Bible, Venice, 1805; and the 1860 ed. of the Armenian Bible published by the Mechitharist Fathers at Venice. For the first five chapters of Book I, the three Armenian texts were collated word for word with the Greek. All the footnotes to the first five chapters in the 1805 ed. were also examined, but nothing rewarding was found in those readings. From this comparison it was concluded that the three editions represent substantially the
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