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The Ancient and Medieval History of Eritrean and Ethiopian Monasticism: An Outline [PDF]

open access: gold, 2020
The paper presents a sketch of the history of Eritrean and Ethiopian monasticism since the very beginning (4th century) up to mid-15th century.
Gianfrancesco Lusini
exaly   +4 more sources

Disputed Translations from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (2015) Reconsidered: Some Notes on Gǝʿǝz Philology

open access: yesAethiopica, 2023
The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of ...
Michael Kleiner
doaj   +5 more sources

The monastic genealogy of Hoḫʷärwa monastery – a unique witness of Betä Ǝsraʾel historiography

open access: yesAethiopica, 2021
During the course of a study of the manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews), the manuscript Jerusalem, National Library, Ms. Or. 87 came to light.
Sophia Dege-Müller
doaj   +1 more source

Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 862-880, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within the relatively isolated environs of the Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive of mobility toward the monastery by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, a sample of 37 individuals from the monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for ...
Robert J. Stark   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Monastic Sites North of Lake Tana - Preliminary Results of an Exploratory Field Trip to Ethiopia in December 2015

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2018
This paper presents results of the first field trip aimed at locating and studying the remains of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) monasteries, as part of an ongoing research project aimed at shedding light on Beta Israel monasticism.
Bar Kribus, Verena Krebs
doaj   +1 more source

Music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as heritage of Saint Yarēd

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2002
According to tradition, it was Saint Yarēd who introduced the three styles (ge'ez, ‘izil and 'ara ray) into Ethiopian church chant, invented musical notation and wrote almost all the repertoire, performed till these days by the debtera and the church ...
Jolanta Kossakowska
doaj  

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