Category:Ethiopian Scholarship

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Ethiopian Scholarship includes works authored, edited or translated by Ethiopian Scholars.

• Ethiopian Scholars – biographies of Ethiopian Scholars

See also: Ethiopia -- Ethiopian -/- Ethiopic language -/- Ethiopian Authors -- Ethiopian Fiction

• This page is edited by Daniel Assefa, Ethiopia

Overview

[Notes: E.C. means Ethiopic Calendar; 7 or 8 years should be added in order to find the corresponding Gregorian calendar.]] 7 years should be added for the period between September 11 and December 31; 8 years should be added for the period between January 1 and September 10.]

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 15th century

Bahāyla Mikā’ēl, an Ethiopian monk wrote the ''Book of the Mystery of Heaven and Earth'' with quotations and interpretations from 1 Enoch

Zar'ā Yā'eqob, king of Ethiopia (1426-1460) wrote ''Maṣḥāfa Milad'' the Book of nativity, an apologetic text with several quotations from 1 Enoch, in view of defending the Christian faith

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 16th century

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 17th century

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 18th century

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 19th century

The Bible in Amharic (1886, Abraham or Abu Rumi) translated and edited. The Translation took place at the beginning of the 19th century. It was done by an Ethiopian monk who was taken and assisted by the French Vice-Consul in Cairo.

The Bible in Oromo (1899, Onesimos Nasib), translated and edited.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1900s

The Bible in Tigrigna (1909, Tawalda Medhin), translated and edited. The work has been done together with Carl Winqvist).

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1910s

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1920s

An allegory of human life, behaviour and search for wisdom based on Biblical, apocryphal and religious texts (Wadājē lebē)(1915 E.C. Hiruy),Book. The allegory is narrated in the first person; biblical texts,themes and ideas are personified.

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of The Four Gospels (1917 E.C. Walda-Rufā’ēl & Gabra-Madhen), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of the Book of Ezekiel (1917 E.C. Kidāna-Wald), edited volume

This commentary differs from most of the Ethiopian traditional commentaries because it also contains elements from Jewish commentaries. The editor had access to rabbinical literature.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1930s

Treatise on the life and work of the Apostles (1923 E.C. Hiruy), Book. The author draws heavily from the traditional Ethiopian commentaries of the New Testament.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1940s

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1950s

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of The Epistles of St. Paul (1945 E.C. Mahāri), edited volume.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1960s

The Bible in Amharic (1962, a joint committee), translated and edited volume. The Psalms are close to the LXX and the Ethiopic (Ge'ez) version.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1970s

The Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles (1965 E.C. Māhbara-Hāwāriyāt), edited volume This is an edition of the Ge’ez text, with an Amharic translation, prepared by traditional Ethiopian scholars who consulted various manuscripts.

A Catalogue of the Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (1979 Gētachaw), Book

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1980s

Traditional Chronology and Calendar (1988 Massarat), Book. This book explores the biblical basis of the Ethiopic Chronology and calendar starting from the creation of Adam.

The Bible in Amharic (1988, Ethiopian Bible Society), translated and edited volume.. The Amharic of this version is easy. The work is inspired by “Good News Bible”.

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 1990s

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Hosea (1994 Andaberhan),edited volume. The translation is in Italian (Commentari etiopici sul libro del Profeta Osea), Aethiopistische Forshungen (AeF 40).

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 2000s

Ta’āmera Iyesus: Miracles of Jesus, (1994 E.C.), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Micah, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah, Malachi, (1998 Gērāwarq), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Genesis and Exodus (1999 E.C. Gērāwarq), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, (1999 E.C. Gērāwarq), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Joshua, Judges, Ruth (1999 E.C. Gērāwarq), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings (2000 E.C. Gērāwarq), edited volume

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of Romans (2001 Tedros), edited volume. The Ge'ez text and the Amharic commentary are translated into Italian (La lettera ai Romani. Testo e commentary della versione Etiopica), (AeF 57).

A Commentary of the Book of Daniel (2000 E.C. Kebrat), book

The Glory of Kings in Ge’ez and in Amharic, Epic of Salomonic dynasty, The queen of Sheba (1994 E.C Sergew), Amharic translation

Ethiopian Scholarship in the 2010s

Ethiopian Traditional Commentary of 1 Enoch (2011 Gērāwarq), edited volume

The Ethiopian Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Critical Edition and Translation (2011 Marshā), Book