Studies in Ethiopian languages, literature, and history
Subtitle: festschrift for Getatchew Haile, presented by his friends and colleagues
By: edited by Adam Carter McCollum
Series: Aethiopistische Forschungen -- Band 83; Äthiopistische Forschungen -- Bd. 83.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag; Harrassowitz
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9783447108485
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History; Ethiopian languages; Ethiopian literature; History and criticism; Semitic languages; Amharic language; Semitic literature; Amharic literature; Ethiopic Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Semitic (Papyri); Amharic Manuscripts; Ethiopic language; Texts; Farmers; Biography; Philologists; Church history; Sources; Languages; Civilization; 18.92 languages of sub-Saharan Africa; Coptic Church
Notes: Festschrift.

23 English, 1 French, 2 German contributions.

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: the case of al-Sakhāwī (d. AH 902-1497 EC)  -- Renate Jacobi; title: The 'golden gospel' of Agwäza and its historical documents  -- Ewa Balicka-Witakowska; title: The Ethiopic Book of Clement : the case of a recent Ethiopian edition and a few additional remarks  -- Alessandro Bausi;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