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Title:Languages and cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian
Editor:Bausi, AlessandroISNI
Year:2012
Issue:4
Language:English
Series:The worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500
City of publisher:Farnham
Publisher:Ashgate
ISBN:0754669971; 9780754669975
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:Ethiopian Church
religious history
Church history
Christian orders
Ge'ez language
epics
Antiquity
Middle Ages
articles (form)
Abstract:This volume offers a collection of previously published articles on the history of Ethiopian Christianity from ca. AD 300 till 1500. The articles are arranged in six parts: 1. The Aksumite period and the Christianization of Ethiopia (Enrico Cerulli, Steven Kaplan, Roger Schneider, Stuart Munro-Hay); 2. The Aksumite literature (Bernd Manuel Weischer, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Alessandro Bausi); 3. The Judaic component (Edward Ullendorff, Maxime Rodinson); 4. The 'second Christianization' and the 'Syriac influences' (Hans Jakob Polotsky, Witold Witakowski, Paolo Marrassini, Stuart Munro-Hay); 5. The Kebra Nagast (Irfan Shahid, David W. Johnson, Stuart Munro-Hay); 6. Saints, monks and kings (Carlo Conti Rossini, Enrico Cerulli, Steven Kaplan, Paolo Marrassini). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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