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
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Modernisation from the shadows: Conspiracy, monasticism and techno-utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada [PDF]
The Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade.
Boylston, Tom, Marzagora, Sara
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Journal of African Christian Biography [PDF]
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: WOMEN --- 1.
Belcher, Wendy Laura +6 more
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"Something Good for the Soul". Crime and Repentance in Apophthegmata Patrum [PDF]
«ΣΥΜΦΕΡΕΙ Τῌ ΨΥΧῌ» ΑΜΑΡΤΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑΝΟΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΑΠΟΦΘΕΓΜΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΤΕΡΩΝ Τὸ ἄρθρο ἀναφέρεται στὴν πεποίθηση χριστιανῶν καὶ ἐθνικῶν τοῦ 5ου αἰώνα, ὅτι ἡ Ἐκκλησία ὑποδεχόταν στοὺς κόλπους της ὅλους ἀνεξαιρέτως τοὺς ἁμαρτωλούς, ἀκόμα καὶ ἐκείνους ποὺ βαρύνονταν ...
VASILEIOU, Fotis
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Joachim G. Persoon, Spirituality, Power and Revolution: Contemporary Monasticism in Communist Ethiopia. With an Overview of the Orthodox Church during Communism by Václav Ježek [PDF]
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Tafla, Bairu
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Getatchew Haile, A History of the First Ǝsṭifanosite Monks [PDF]
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Villa, Massimo
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Angels among us? The Watchers myth and angelology in Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis and the Ethiopic tradition [PDF]
This study examines the euhemeristic interpretation of Genesis 6:1–4 as it appears in Ephrem of Nisibis’ Commentary on Genesis and its influence on Syriac and Ethiopic commentary traditions.
David Skelton
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Combining Historical Maps, Travel Itineraries and Least-Cost Path Modelling to Reconstruct Pre-Modern Travel Routes and Locations in Northern Tigray (Ethiopia) [PDF]
Investigating long-distance travelling routes is crucial for understanding both historical decision-making processes as well as possible regional points of interest that may have been lost in the course of time.
Hardt, Jacob +2 more
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 1 [PDF]
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Introducing African Christian Biography. 2.
Bonk, Jonathan J. +8 more
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From king to stylite in Axūm: The Ethiopian king Elesbās and the symbolic and propagantistic value of the narrative colophon of the ‘History of the massacre of Naǧrān’ [PDF]
En el presente artículo nos ocupamos del colofón de la „Historia de la masacre de Naǧrān‟, en el que analizamos el valor simbólico de la breve narración allí contenida en la que el rey etíope Elesbās deja de ser el rey de Axūm para convertirse en ...
Monferrer-Sala, J.P.
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