Version A is an Armenian witness based on a Mastoc (Ritual) which dates back to A.D. 1208, manuscript number 570, fols. 203r-206v of the Library of the Mechitarist Fathers in Venice. The writing is "a Christian composition clearly based on Jewish models."M. E. Stone, Questions of Ezra (Date Unknown). A New Translation and Introduction, in James H. Charlesworth (1985), The Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., Volume 2, (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2). Here cited vol. 1 pp. 591-592..
