Free public domain books.
Hooray for Google Books!
- August Dillman’s Ethiopic Grammar – useful after you learn Ethiopic, (preferably by working through Lambdin’s Introduction to Classical Ethiopic).
- Dillman’s Chrestomathia Aethiopica - selection of readings in the Ge’ez script (commentary is written in Latin, however). Particularly nice because it has selections from the Lives of the Saints that match some of the readings in Lambdin (which, of course, are only given in transliteration).
- The books of Exodus and Leviticus - the OT in Ge’ez! Cool. Part II of the The Octateuch in Ethiopic. I would love to see the other volumes make their way to Google Books.
- Franz Praetorius’s Grammatica aethiopica cum paradigmatibus, literatura, chrestomathia, et glossario Since it’s written in Latin, I recommend Dillman’s grammar instead (unless you really love Latin). However, the chrestomathy is nice. You can find some Psalms and the first four chapters of Genesis.
- Ethiopic New Testament - not in the best font, but still . . .
And, just for fun, from the British Library’s Turning the Pages project:
In the section on Moses and the Book of Genesis there is audio of at least the first chapter of Genesis (I didn’t listen to the whole audio, but it does start with Genesis 1 - baqedma gabra . . .)
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