A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea

Kelly, Samantha

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“…As in Nubia, Egyptian influence on the Ethiopian church is well known, with preserved textual accounts of Ethiopian monks in Egypt in the ninth c. CE and at the White Monastery in ca. 1,038 or 1,114 CE recorded in Gǝʿǝz (Kelly, 2020), along with the sojourn of St. Ewosṭātēwos into Nubia following from Ethiopia in 1330 CE (Turaev, 1955, 44-45;Obłuski, 2019, 126); and the presence of a 13th-14th c. CE graffito attesting to the possible visit of an Axumite archbishop at Sonqi Tino (Łajtar & Ochała, 2017). Additionally, the use of Gǝʿǝz in a 12th c. CE epistle produced at Wādī al-Naṭrūn suggests a sufficient enough presence of Gǝʿǝz speakers in this region to necessitate multilingual religious texts (Kelly, 2020, 428).…”

Section: Axumite/post-axumite Ethiopiamentioning

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Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

2023

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The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within the relatively isolated environs of the Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive of mobility toward the monastery by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, a sample of 37 individuals from the monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O to assess residency during dental enamel formation. The data generated bring into question the nature of mobility to Ghazali monastery, particularly in regard to the potential movement of people from the Nile valley, adjacent desertic landscapes, and further afield.

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Section: Axumite/post-axumite Ethiopiamentioning

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Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

2023

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Hagiography as Source: Gender and Conversion Narratives in The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church

Wells

2020

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Drawing on the work of Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, this essay proposes utilizing hagiographies from the The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, a fifteenth-century Ethiopian collection of saints’ lives, to explore various aspects of conversion. Other scholars employ a similar approach when analyzing hagiographical literature found in medieval Europe. While acknowledging that these texts do not provide details about the historical experience of conversion, they can assist scholars in understanding the conception of conversion in the imagination of the culture that created them. This essay specifically focuses on the role of women in conversion throughout the text and argues that, although men and women were almost equally represented as agents of conversion, a closer examination reveals that their participation remained gendered. Women more frequently converted someone with whom they had a prior relationship, especially a member of their familial network. Significantly, these observations mirror the patterns uncovered by contemporary scholars such as Dana Robert, who notes how women contributed to the spread of Christianity primarily through human relationships. By integrating these representations of conversion from late medieval Ethiopia, scholarship will gain a more robust picture of conversion in Africa more broadly and widen its understanding of world Christianity.

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Jewish–Christian Interaction in Ethiopia as Reflected in Sacred Geography: Expressing Affinity with Jerusalem and the Holy Land and Comemorating the Betä Ǝsraʾel–Solomonic Wars

Kribus¹

2022

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Affinity with the Holy Land, and especially with Jerusalem, is a common theme in the sacred geography of Abrahamic religions, expressed in prayer houses and holy sites. This theme was especially prominent in Solomonic Ethiopia, both among Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and among the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews). This article will examine expressions of affinity with Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Betä Ǝsraʾel holy sites and religious architecture, and shed light on the interreligious discourse related to such expressions, as well as other forms of interreligious discourse expressed by these two communities in sacred geography. This will demonstrate that in Solomonic Ethiopia, affinity with the Holy Land was a core element in expressing an Israelite identity. Both the Betä Ǝsraʾel and the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians saw themselves as the biological and spiritual heirs of the biblical Israelites, and this concept played a key role in shaping their sacred geography to allude to biblical sites and events. This will also demonstrate that, building upon a vocabulary with common features, the sacred geography and religious architecture of each community was a means to express its unique identity. As such, it provides insight regarding differences in religious concepts.

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A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea

Cited by 9 publications

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Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

Monks on the move? An assessment of mobility at the medieval Nubian monastery of Ghazali, Sudan (ca. 680–1,275 CE)

Hagiography as Source: Gender and Conversion Narratives in The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church

Jewish–Christian Interaction in Ethiopia as Reflected in Sacred Geography: Expressing Affinity with Jerusalem and the Holy Land and Comemorating the Betä Ǝsraʾel–Solomonic Wars

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