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Volume 15 Number Vol 15 (2012) Year 2087

38 articles in this issue 

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Pags. 6  

Walter W. Müller

Up to now eight fragmentary Ethiopic inscriptions have been discovered in South Arabia, dating from the time immediately after the year 525 A.D. when the Yemen was conquered by the Abyssinians. Three of these fragments, among them a hitherto unpublis... see more

Pags. 7 - 21  

Tedros Abraha

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of little known G???z texts ascribed to Philo, namely: fragments of a Paschal Homily, a bulky but incomplete commentary on the Pauline Corpus and a fragment of Philo of Carpasia’s commentary on the Canti... see more

Pags. 22 - 52  

Alin Suciu

The article introduces British Library Or. 7027, f. 75, a previously unidentified fragment from the Sahidic version of a homily on the Lament of Mary, which is attributed in Arabic and Ethiopic manuscripts to the mysterious figure of Cyriacus, bishop of B... see more

Pags. 53 - 71  

Víctor M. Fernández, Andreu Martínez D'Alòs-Moner, Jorge de Torres, Carlos Cañete

The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia, which extended from 1557 to 1632, produced important architectonic constructions. Most of these constructions were erected in the provinces of Däm

Pags. 72 - 91  

Stéphane Ancel

The article deals with a peculiar document that was found during a field research conducted by the team of the Ethio-SPARE project during the spring 2010 in church libraries of Gulo Mäkäda wäräda, north-east T?gray (historical ?Agame). This document is a ... see more

Pags. 92 - 104  

Aboneh Ashagrie

When theatre arts emerged in Ethiopia 90 years ago, all characters in the pioneering play were performed solely by children in front of the Crown Prince Täfäri Mäkwänn?n, and members of the aristocracy. The tradition of considering children as a main forc... see more

Pags. 105 - 117  

Hermann Amborn

Dealing with resource problems, energy balance and sustainable climate protection have emerged as subjects of public interest. Indigenous knowledge and concepts, however, are seldom dealt with by western scientists. On the basis of exemplary cases from so... see more

Pags. 118 - 135  

Maria Bulakh

The paper offers the results of analysis of word order throughout the epigraphic corpus of G???z. This evidence is mostly in agreement with the data from Classical G???z and confirms that early G???z represents the classical Semitic type of a right-branch... see more

Pags. 136 - 175  

Andreas Wetter

This article describes aspects of an Amharic manuscript from Wärrä Babbo written in agäm, i.e. in the Arabic script. Since this kind of literature is quite widespread in the eastern parts of Wällo and in Yifat, the article begins with an introductive over... see more

Pags. 176 - 203  

Grover Hudson

Results for ethnic groups and mother tongues of the 1994 and 2007 Ethiopian census are presented and compared. There are ethnic groups without mother tongues and mother tongues without ethnic groups. Names of ethnic groups and mother tongues differ in the... see more

Pags. 204 - 218  

Rainer Voigt

Bibliography for the Study of Ethiosemitic, Cushitic and Omotic Languages.

Pags. 219 - 224  

Basil Lourié

The Ethiopic term kentros “1/30” goes back to Akkadian mišlu through a lost meaning of the Greek astronomical term ???t???.

Pags. 225 - 227  

Bernhard Tönnies

This article deals with the loss of Ethiopian manuscripts in possession of the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (Sammlung Rüppell) during World War II and the rediscovery of two of these manuscripts in 2010.

Pags. 228 - 232