The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant [PDF]
Of all the musical traditions in the world among which fruitful comparisons with medieval European chant might be made, the chant tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church promises to be especially informative.
Jeffery, Peter +2 more
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Fine‐Tuning BERT Models for Multiclass Amharic News Document Categorization
Bidirectional encoder representation from transformer (BERT) models are increasingly being employed in the development of natural language processing (NLP) systems, predominantly for English and other European languages. However, because of the complexity of the language’s morphology and the scarcity of models and resources, the BERT model is not ...
Demeke Endalie, Hassan Zargarzadeh
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On the Source and Rewriting of 1 Corinthians 2.9 in Christian, Jewish and Islamic Traditions (1 Clem 34.8; GosJud 47.10-13; a ḥadīth qudsī) [PDF]
The article reopens the file of sources, parallels and rewritings of 1 Cor 2.9, a saying that Paul attributes to some written source, when others sources put it into Jesus' mouth (e.g. GosThom 17). A state of research highlights that the hypothesis of an
Clivaz, Claire, Schulthess, Sara
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Un testigo arameo cristiano-palestinense olvidado de la Dormición de María en el Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR IV) [PDF]
The Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR IV) contains a neglected text witness of the Dormition of Mary from the five-book cycle or “palm narrative”. It is one of the very early transmissions of this apocryphal text in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th/6th ...
Müller-Kessler, Christa
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Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch and Merkabah Tradition [PDF]
This article investigates the roots of Enoch-Metatron’s liturgical office of celestial choirmaster which plays a prominent role in the Merkabah tradition.
Orlov, Andrei
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Luke 2:22, Leviticus 12, and Parturient Impurity [PDF]
In Luke 2:22 Luke attributes parturient impurity to both Mary and Jesus (and/or Joseph). Interpreters have often concluded that this verse demonstrates that Luke misunderstands the levitical legislation pertaining to childbirth impurity (Leviticus 12 ...
Matthew Thiessen
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ʾAmsālu Tafarrā, ነቅዐ መጻሕፍት፤ ከ600 በላይ በግዕዝ የተጻፉ የኢትዮጵያ መጻሕፍት ዝርዝር ከማብራሪያ ጋር
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene
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Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script [PDF]
This is a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Maktari, Sultan, Mansour, Kamal
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Debunking Ancient Jewish Science [PDF]
A recently published collection of articles focuses upon a relatively small group of texts dealing mainly with astronomical calculations and omens as well as physiognomic omens, attempting to use these as a basis for reconstructing ancient Jewish ...
Geller, M
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