38 articles in this issue
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rainer Voigt
Bibliography for the Study of Ethiosemitic, Cushitic and Omotic Languages.
Basil Lourié
The Ethiopic term kentros “1/30” goes back to Akkadian mišlu through a lost meaning of the Greek astronomical term ???t???.
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.
Bairu Tafla
Personalia
Alessio Agostini
Obituary
David L. Appleyard
Reidulf K. Molvaer
Richard Pankhurst, Rita Pankhurst
Harald Aspen, Kjetil Tronvoll, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Bernt Lindtjørn, Trygve Berg, Lovise Aalen
Michael Schulze
Review Article
Review
Alessandro Bausi
Alessandro Gori
Sophia Dege
Gerhard Krebs
Hanna Rubinkowska
Ulrich Braukämper
Alexander Meckelburg
Graziano Savà
Susanne Epple
Dissertation Abstract
Isabella Abbonizio