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Studies in Ethiopian languages, literature, and history : festschrift for Getatchew Haile, presented by his friends and colleagues / edited by Adam Carter McCollum.

Title: Studies in Ethiopian languages, literature, and history : festschrift for Getatchew Haile, presented by his friends and colleagues / edited by Adam Carter McCollum.
Publication: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.

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Additional Authors

McCollum, Adam Carter

Description

xv, 619 pages : some illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume in appreciation of Getatchew Haile includes twenty-six articles by an international community of scholars, with papers divided into sections on history and culture, texts and manuscripts, and languages. The history, literature, and languages of Ethiopia from Late Antiquity to the present form the focal points of this collection, which will be of interest to scholars and students of the history and literature of Christianity, Semitic languages (especially, but not exclusively, Ethio-Semitic), and Ethiopia in general. A selected bibliography of Getatchew Haile's writings concludes the book.

Series Statement

Aethiopistische Forschungen, 0170-3196 ; Band 83

Uniform Title

Äthiopistische Forschungen Bd. 83.

Subject

Genre/Form

Festschriften
Biographies
Church history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
History
Sources
Texts
Biographies.

Note

Festschrift.
23 English, 1 French, 2 German contributions.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Traditional Ethiopian legal culture : Amharic proverbs and maxims on law and justice / Jon Abbink -- The life histories of four Ethiopian farmers / Donald Crummey -- The west portal ceiling paintings in the Zagwe Church of Yemreḥannä Krestos / Michael Gervers -- Concerning Saint Yared / Marilyn E. Heldman, Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Arab-Ethiopian relations in the Aksumite period : the role of Simeon, Bishop of Beth-Arsham / Irfan Shahid -- Multiple sources for Ethiopian history and methodology : a historiographical approach / Irma Taddia -- Pseudo-science and the politics of change in Dertogada and Ramatohara / Taye Assefa -- Biography as a self-narrative : the case of al-Sakhāwī (d. AH 902-1497 EC) / Renate Jacobi -- The 'golden gospel' of Agwäza and its historical documents / Ewa Balicka-Witakowska -- The Ethiopic Book of Clement : the case of a recent Ethiopian edition and a few additional remarks / Alessandro Bausi -- Homélie d'Anastase le Sinaïte sur le Psaume 6 (ms. éthiopien D'abbadie 134, de la BnF) / Robert Beylot -- The question-and-answer part of Ibn aṭ-Tạyyib's the Paradise of Christianity : an Ethiopic translation (MS EMML no. 1839) / Aaron Michael Butts -- Iqäbänni : an English translation of New York Public Library Spencer Collection Ms. 4 / Monica S. Devens -- The library and Old Testament manuscripts of Gundä Gunde / Ted Erho -- The Sänbät-Sunday in Ge'ez liturgical texts : a comparative perspective / Habtemichael-Kidane -- Restä Amba zä-Isra'el : ein Dokument über Erbbesitz des äthiopischen Königshauses (Isra'el) auf und um Amba-Säl aus dem 16. Jahrhundert / Manfred Kropp -- A 364-day calendar encapsulated in the liturgy of the seventh Sabbath of the betä Isra'el of Ethiopia / Basil Lourié -- A new Ge'ez text on Adam and the judgement of the angels (Gundä Gunde 177) / Adam Carter McCollum -- A brief history of the Ethiopian manuscript microfilm library (EMML) / Columba Stewart -- Witnesses to the Ethiopic I recension of Mäsḥạfä Henok from Gundä Gunde : a comparison / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Abba Lebsä of Gonǧ-Ṣelalo : sources for discussing religious identities in Goǧǧam (early seventeenth century, Ethiopia) / Anaïs Wion -- Cain, Abel and their sisters in Ethiopian tradition / Witold Witakowski -- Old Amharic object suffixes and the formation of the liyafé : 'anéqaṣé / Gideon Goldenberg -- Some Agaw non-loanwords in Ethiopian Semitic / Grover Hudson -- Syntax and the history of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia / Olga Kapeliuk -- Die Perfektkonjugation im Tigre / Rainer Voigt -- A selected bibliography of the publications of Getatchew Haile / Alessandro Bausi, Thomas Rave.

ISBN

9783447108485
3447108487

LCCN

2017376404
9783447108485

OCLC

983775944
SCSB-12884362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library