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Author: Daniel Alemu ,
Steve Delamarter ,
Getatchew Haile ,
Roger M. Rundell
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.809kg
ISBN: 9780227173503
ISBN 10: 0227173503
Pages: 490
Publication Date: 28 April 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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The Project seeks to locate, digitize, and catalogue Ethiopic manuscripts and make the images and catalogues widely available for research by scholars. It began in the spring of 2005, and by 2009 had digitized the first 700 manuscripts. This is the catalogue for the first 239 manuscripts, which includes was 105 codices and 134 scrolls of Ethiopian spiritual healing photographed in 2005 and 2006. Also included are a list of the manuscripts by number and owner, dated or datable and undated and composite manuscripts, and indexes by many entries. A volume of plates is published simultaneously: 978-0-227-17351-0. Book News Inc, Reference - Research Book News - October 2011
Author Information
Getatchew Haile is a MacArthur Fellow and has studied theology at the Coptic Theological College in Cairo, Egypt; social sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and Semitic philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. He has also taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) before he moved to the United States in 1976. Haile is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and has served St. Johns University (Collegeville, Minnesota) as Curator of the Ethiopian Study Center, as Regents Professor of Medieval Studies, and as Cataloguer of Oriental Manuscripts, Emeritus. Melaku Terefe served the church in Ethiopia for several years in various positions in Awasa (southern Ethiopia) and Harrar (eastern Ethiopia). For the last seven years he has served as priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Los Angeles, California. He is in frequent demand, speaking in various churches throughout North America. He is also the cataloguer of the Wolf Leslau collection of Ethiopian manuscripts at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA. Roger M. Rundell currently resides in Longview, Washington. Ato Daniel Alemu currently resides in Addis Ababa. Steve Delamarter teaches Old Testament at the seminary of George Fox University. With Ato Demeke Berhane, he has written A Catalogue of Previously Uncatalogued Ethiopic Manuscripts in England: Twenty-three Manuscripts in the Bodleian, Cambridge University and John Rylands University Libraries and in a Private Collection (Oxford University Press, 2007).
