The edition is a diplomatic edition based on the text of the Arabic version ofIV Ezra as found in the unique tenthcentury manuscript Ms Mt Sinai ArabicCodex 589... » 

The edition is a diplomatic edition based on the text of the Arabic version ofIV Ezra as found in the unique tenthcentury manuscript Ms Mt Sinai ArabicCodex 589 which contains the full text of this version. It is a translation ofa Syriac text closely related to the sole survivor in Ms Milan AmbrosianLibrary B. 21 Inf. It is not identical with any of the other known Arabicversions of IV Ezra which appear to have been translated from the Greek. Theintroduction to the edition contains a description of the manuscript adiscussion of its orthography and its scribal mistakes and of the adoptedmethod of text edition. translation. The introduction deals among others withthe relation between the Syriac version of IV Ezra and its Arabic translationthe fragment in Ms Berol. Sprenger 30 Ahlwardt 9434 the relation between theArabic version of IV Ezra and the Arabic version of the Apocalypse of Baruch inthe same manuscript and the occurence of Middle Arabic elements in the textPeeters 1996 «