Book of Meqabyan I - III

_{TRANSLATOR NOTE: It does not seem to be widely known that the 3 Books of Meqabyan in the Ethiopic canon bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the 4 Western Apocryphal Books of Maccabees... It is my belief that this Iyaric version of mine is the first ever published translation of this part of the Ethiopian Bible into any form of English...!!! I say this because my web search has only found one site with high quality information, that even alludes to the cantents of these Ethiopian Books of Meqabyan, here: The Biblical Canon Of The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today (see esp. footnote #9) The only references it gives for further information are two scholarly journals: J. Horovitz, "Das äthiopische Maccabäerbuch", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, Leipzig, XIX, pp. 194--233 (this will be written in German) and R. Cowley, "Old Testament Introduction in the Andemta Commentary Tradition", Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, vol. XII no.1, pp. 133-175, [If anyone can find either of these articles, especially the English one, I would love to see it! Also, if anyone with knowledge of Amharic can help me with translating a few underlined words of uncertain meaning in verses 8:1, 8:29, 9:2, 19:1, 30:14, & 35:7, I will be iternally grateful! - RFI]}