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Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access An Annotated and Classified Bibliography of English Literature Pertaining to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. By JON BONK. Pp. xi+116. (ATLA Bibliography Series, II.) Metuchen, N.J. and London: The American Theological Library Association and The Scarecrow Press Inc., 1984. £18. ROGER W. COWLEY ROGER W. COWLEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 1986, Pages 311-a–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/37.1.311-a Published: 01 April 1986

The Traditional Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St. John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Traditional Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St. John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

III. A Reflection from the Delegation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 173-174 III. A Reflection from the Delegation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church L.M.A. Yegzaw, L.M.A. Yegzaw L.M. Abebaw Yegzaw, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, wrote these reflections on behalf of the delegation.Search for more papers by this author L.M.A. Yegzaw, L.M.A. Yegzaw L.M. Abebaw Yegzaw, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, wrote these reflections on behalf of the delegation.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1984.tb03633.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue2April 1984Pages 173-174 RelatedInformation

Hagiographies and the History of Medieval Ethiopia

The hagiographic literature of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church may be divided into two major categories: the translated lives of the saints and martyrs of the early Christian church and the lives of local saints. The essentially foreign works, which constitute the first of these groups, will be of only peripheral concern in this paper. While books such as Barlaam and Joasaph, The Life of St. George, and The Conflict of Severus did serve as models for the traditions dealing with local saints, they are of little interest to the student of Ethiopian history.The most interesting of these local hagiographies are those about saints who lived between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These traditions, which recount the lives of some kings and many monastic leaders, are of great importance for the reconstruction of the history of medieval Ethiopia. As Conti Rossini has written, The more I preoccupy myself with the history of Ethiopia, the more I realize the importance of the study of local traditions. Only when we are a little more informed of these traditions with their accounts of the movements of peoples, with the advent (even if sometimes legendary) of successive chiefs, will we have an accurate idea of the history of Ethiopia.However, while specialists in Ethiopian literature and history have long realized the potential value of these gadlāt (singular: gadl) as sources for the study of Ethiopian history, the tendency towards idealization displayed in these works, as well as their abundant miracles and anachronisms, have left historians uncertain as to how to extract reliable information from them.

Traditional Institutions and Traditional Elites: The Role of Education in the Ethiopian Body-Politic

A radical change in an educational system, as well as being the result of a social revolution, is a means of consolidating it. In a developing nation like Ethiopia which is undergoing a social upheaval, education has a vital role to play. It permits the articulation of the aspirations of the masses as a subject fit for knowledge. It helps to associate knowledge with the critique of the oppressive conditions of life and commits it to the transformation of society and the development of human potentialities. It is a truism that education, as a conveyer belt of human values, skills, ideas, and facts, is an integral aspect of a society's reproduction of itself. The conflicts and tensions that germinate in a given society, the solutions, both functional and dysfunctional, that the political system generates to resolve them find their way into the educational system and condition its structure and content. The educational system and the education imparted therein could even be in certain situations, the expression, indeed the embodiment of one of society's tensions, and as such, is transformed into a catalyst-if not of social change, at least of social awareness that leads to the development of an action oriented ideology. The study presented here will attempt to elaborate on these different aspects of education through an empirical investigation of the relationship between traditional education and socio-political processes in Ethiopia in the course of this millenium.1 Traditionally, education was dispensed by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,2 which introduced the young Ethiopian to the Ge'ez and Ethiopian alphabets3 and to reading the Old and New Testaments in Ge'ez.4 A distinction was made between reading and writing. The youngster was taught how to read the sacred texts, but no emphasis was put on teaching him how to write. This produced two kinds of educated people: those who could read and those who could both read and

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) is a joint project of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (HMML) (formerly Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library) of St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S.A. Professor Walter Harrelson, former Dean of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, is Chairman; Dr. Julian G. Plante, Director of HMML and Research Professor of Classics in St. John's University, is Vice-Chairman; and Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie, Professor of History in Addis Ababa University, is Project Director. Grateful acknowledgement for the funding of this project must be made to the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.EMML was established at the urging of His Holiness Abuna Tewoflos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who was much concerned about the dangers of irreparable damage and loss to the manuscript treasures of his Church. The purpose of the project is twofold: To preserve on microfilm the precious treasures of manuscripts and to make those source materials available for study by scholars both within and outside Ethiopia. Efforts are also being directed toward obtaining copies of Ethiopian manuscripts outside of Ethiopia.Actual photographic operations are being carried out by an Ethiopian team in conjunction with Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., where the film is processed. Positive and negative copies are sent to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which has founded a center for the purpose at Addis Ababa, and positive copy is sent to HMML in Collegeville, where interested students and scholars may come for consultation and study. HMML is a research center with a focus on medieval and renaissance manuscripts on microfilm.

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) is a joint project of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (HMML) (formerly Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library) of St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S.A. Professor Walter Harrelson, former Dean of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, is Chairman; Dr. Julian G. Plante, Director of HMML and Research Professor of Classics in St. John's University, is Vice-Chairman; and Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie, Professor of History in Addis Ababa University, is Project Director. Grateful acknowledgement for the funding of this project must be made to the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.EMML was established at the urging of His Holiness Abuna Tewoflos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who was much concerned about the dangers of irreparable damage and loss to the manuscript treasures of his Church. The purpose of the project is twofold: To preserve on microfilm the precious treasures of manuscripts and to make those source materials available for study by scholars both within and outside Ethiopia. Efforts are also being directed toward obtaining copies of Ethiopian manuscripts outside of Ethiopia.Actual photographic operations are being carried out by an Ethiopian team in conjunction with Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., where the film is processed. Positive and negative copies are sent to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which has founded a center for the purpose at Addis Ababa, and positive copy is sent to HMML in Collegeville, where interested students and scholars may come for consultation and study. HMML is a research center with a focus on medieval and renaissance manuscripts on microfilm.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Family Planning in Ethiopia

In 1971, the Ethiopian population was estimated at 25 million and the growth rate at 2.5 percent. Although population problems are suspected to have contributed to the health and economic problems of the country in recent years, no large-scale surveys have been conducted in this area and the government has not formulated an official policy on population or family planning. Resistance to family planning is apparent on the part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Muslim religious leaders. Despite these circumstances, family planning programs do exist on a limited level in the country. The government allows family planning services to be offered in some areas in connection with maternal and child health programs and clinics. The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia started a limited family planning program in 1966, with assistance from the Pathfinder Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. During 1970-1971, the first survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of family planning in Ethiopia was carried out under the sponsorship of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of the Haile Selassie I University. This study was designed to provide a rudimentary data base for national development and health planning.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Vermittlung Zwischenkirchlicher Gemeinschaft. 50 Jahre Missionsgesellschaft Bethlehem Immensee.“The Evangelization of the World in this Generation.” The Resurgence of a Missionary Idea among the Conservative Evangelicals. By Denton Lotz.The Pentecostals. By Walter J. Hollenweger.The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia. By B. J. Boland.The Vanishing Clergyman: A Sociological Study of the Priestly Role in South Africa. By Trevor David Verryn.The Invitation: Matthew in Mission. By Hans‐Ruedi Weber.The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945–1952 and Japanese Religions. By William P. Woodard.The Life of Lt.‐General Kotoka, Hero of the 24th February Revolution. By L. H. Ojosu.The Ethiopian Orthodox Church: by Aymro Wondmagegnahu and Joachim Motovu.

The Judaic Spirit of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Judaic Spirit of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Judaic Spirit of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: A Case Study in Religious Acculturation

The Judaic Spirit of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: A Case Study in Religious Acculturation

Is there an Ethiopian Philosophy? Rereading the Hatetas of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat in the Context of Knowledge Production

The hatetas of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat are widely regarded as the precursors of societal enlightenment and written philosophy in Ethiopia. Mainly taking a form of an autobiographical exercise that tries to reflect on inherited horizons and conventional authority, the hatetas are seen as philosophical treatises that establish the need for societal rationality. Earlier on debates existed on the originality of the hatetas and whether or not the idea found within the hatetas qualifies as a philosophy. Claude Summer could be regarded as the ardent advocate of the position which celebrates the hatetas as original works of Ethiopian philosophy. Based on an attempt to refute the originality of the hatetas initiated by the Italian orientalist Carlo Conti Rossini, Daniel Kibret recently argued that the whole idea of an Ethiopian philosophy founded on the works of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat is a Western fabrication. He proceeded to argue that it was an Italian Jesuit by the name of Giusto d'Urbino who wrote the hatetas and that the hatetas had a hidden motive of initiating a reformist movement within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In this paper we will try to evaluate the credibility of such arguments by initiating a rereading of the hatetas.

Birth Customs and Birth Songs of the Macha Galla

The data presented in this paper were collected in the field, between Jan? uary, 1968, and January, 1969, from the Macha Galla in the vicinity of the small town of Dembidollo (c. 8?30/N, 35?E) in extreme western Ethiopia. Though the traditional culture of this region is being increasingly affected by the impact of Amhara culture and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, by Protestant and Catholic missions, and by the advancing education, money economy, and urban influences in Dembidollo, birth customs still remain largely unaffected. This differs, for example, from the situation with respect to marriage customs and appears to be due to the facts (1) that birth cus? toms are almost exclusively the concern of women and (2) that women in general retain a closer attachment to the traditional patterns of life.

STATEMENT FROM THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 14, Issue 2 p. 234-237 STATEMENT FROM THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH First published: January 1962 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1962.tb02010.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume14, Issue2January 1962Pages 234-237 RelatedInformation