Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian

Alessandro Bausi, is Professor of Ethiopian Studies in the Asia and Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany

• Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part 1 The Aksumite Period and the Christianization of Ethiopia: Perspectives on the history of Ethiopia, Enrico Cerulli; Ezana's conversion reconsidered, Steven Kaplan; Notes on the Royal Aksumite inscriptions, Roger Schneider; The dating of Ezana and Frumentius, Stuart Munro-Hay. Part 2 The Aksumite Literature: Historical and philological problems of the Axumitic literature (especially in the Qérellos), Bernd Manuel Weischer; The adventures of the Apocrypha in Ethiopia, Pierluigi Piovanelli; The Aksumite background of the Ethiopic 'corpus canonum', Alessandro Bausi. Part 3 The 'Judaic Component': Hebraic-Jewish elements in Abyssinian (monophysite) Christianity, Edward Ullendorff; Review of Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians, Maxime Rodinson; On the question of 'Jewish influences' in Ethiopia, Maxime Rodinson. Part 4 The 'Second Christianization' and the 'Syriac Influences': Aramaic, Syriac, and Ge'ez, Hans Jakob Polotsky; Syrian influences in Ethiopian culture, Witold Witakowski; Once again on the question of Syriac influences in the Aksumite period, Paolo Marrassini; 'Saintly shadows', Stuart Munro-Hay. Part 5 The Kebra Nagast: The Kebra Nagast in the light of recent research, Irfan Shahîd; Dating the Kebra Nagast: another look, David W. Johnson; A 6th century Kebra Nagast?, Stuart Munro-Hay. Part 6 Saints, Monks and Kings: Ethiopian hagiography and the acts of Saint Yafqeranna-Egzi (14th century), Carlo Conti Rossini; Monasticism in Ethiopia, Enrico Cerulli; Hagiographies and the history of medieval Ethiopia, Steven Kaplan; A hagiographic text: the Royal Chronicle, Paolo Marrassini; Index.