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Book Falasha Anthology

Download or read book Falasha Anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Falasha anthology

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Falasha anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Falashas

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  • Author : David F. Kessler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-10-12
  • ISBN : 1136304487
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book The Falashas written by David F. Kessler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third, revised edition comprises the whole of the original volume and is enhanced by the addition of a new preface and afterward which seek to reply to criticisms of the authors argument about the origins of the Falashas, and include some new thinking on the subject. Drawing on tradition and legend to reinforce his argument, the author again traces the source of the community to the Jewish settlements which existed in ancient Egypt (particularly at Elephantine on the Nile) and in the ancient Meroitic Kingdom, in present day Sudan known in the Bible as Cush. The story told in this book is remarkable, heroic and stimulating and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the horn of Africa.

Book Falasha Anthology

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Falasha Anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethiopia and the Bible

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  • Author : Edward Ullendorff
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN : 9780197260760
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Ethiopia and the Bible written by Edward Ullendorff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1968 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally Ethiopia has formed a bridge between civilizations, with Jerusalem as vital as Aksum in the national consciousness of the Ethiopians. In this volume, Professor Ullendorff investigates the relationship of Ethiopia to the Bible. He considers the historical background, translations of the Bible into Ethiopian languages, and the impact of the Old Testament, which goes beyond anything experienced in the other Oriental Christian Churches. The book concludes with an examination of the story of the Queen of Sheba, based on the Biblical account of the queen's visit to King Solomon. It shows how this account has undergone extensive Arabian, Ethiopian, Jewish and other elaborations, to become the subject of one of the most ubiquitous and fertile cycles of legends in the Near East.

Book A Social and Religious History of the Jews  Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion  1200 1650

Download or read book A Social and Religious History of the Jews Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion 1200 1650 written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Falasha Anthology Transl  from Ethiopie Sources with an Introd  by Wolf Leslau

Download or read book Falasha Anthology Transl from Ethiopie Sources with an Introd by Wolf Leslau written by Wolf Leslau and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Falasha Anthology

Download or read book Falasha Anthology written by Wolf Leslau and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Falashas, who are the most isolated and most ancient Jewish community extant, have preserved their own religious writings through the centuries. This book offers a cross section of their sacred literature, translated for the first time into English from Ethiopic sources. In addition, the translator provides a detailed description of the life and mores of the Falashas, based on his personal experience and observation during a prolonged stay in their community"--Back cover.

Book The Jews of Ethiopia

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  • Author : Tudor Parfitt
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 1134367686
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Jews of Ethiopia written by Tudor Parfitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a special focus on Europe and the role of German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, the book investigates the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite.

Book Cultures of the Jews

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  • Author : David Biale
  • Publisher : Schocken
  • Release : 2012-08-29
  • ISBN : 0307483460
  • Pages : 1234 pages

Download or read book Cultures of the Jews written by David Biale and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians , folklorists, and historians of relation, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the United States, Israel, and France—have contributed their insight to Cultures of the Jews. The premise of their endeavor is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable, the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived. Building their essays on specific cultural artifacts—a poem, a letter, a traveler’s account, a physical object of everyday or ritual use—that were made in the period and locale they study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews—from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women—as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. Part One, “Mediterranean Origins,” describes the concept of the “People” or “Nation” of Israel that emerges in the Hebrew Bible and the culture of the Israelites in relation to that of the Canaanite groups. It goes on to discuss Jewish cultures in the Greco-Roman world, Palestine during the Byzantine period, Babylonia, and Arabia during the formative years of Islam. Part Two, “Diversities of Diaspora,” illuminates Judeo-Arabic culture in the Golden Age of Islam, Sephardic culture as it bloomed first if the Iberian Peninsula and later in Amsterdam, the Jewish-Christian symbiosis in Ashkenazic Europe and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the culture of the Italian Jews of the Renaissance period, and the many strands of folklore, magic, and material culture that run through diaspora Jewish history. Part Three, “Modern Encounters,” examines communities, ways of life, and both high and fold culture in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Ladino Diaspora, North Africa and the Middle East, Ethiopia, Zionist Palestine and the State of Israel, and, finally, the United States. Cultures of the Jews is a landmark, representing the fruits of the present generation of scholars in Jewish studies and offering a new foundation upon which all future research into Jewish history will be based. Its unprecedented interdisciplinary approach will resonate widely among general readers and the scholarly community, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and it will change the terms of the never-ending debate over what constitutes Jewish identity.

Book For Our Soul

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  • Author : Teshome Wagaw
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2018-02-05
  • ISBN : 0814344097
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book For Our Soul written by Teshome Wagaw and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel. Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia and its ensuing economic and political upheavals, compounded by the brutality of the military regime and the willingness—after years of refusal—of the Israeli government to receive them as bona fide Jews entitled to immigrate to that country. As the sole Jewish community from sub-Sahara Africa in Israel, the Ethiopian Jews have met with unique difficulties. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, also known as Falasha or Beta Israel, experienced in Israel.

Book We the Black Jews

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  • Author : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
  • Publisher : Black Classic Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780933121409
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book We the Black Jews written by Yosef Ben-Jochannan and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Ben destroys the myth of a "white Jewish race" and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the legitimacy of contemporary Black Jewish culture in Africa and the diaspora and predates its origin before ancient Nile Valley civilizations.

Book The Central Ethiopians  Amhara  Tigri  a and Related Peoples

Download or read book The Central Ethiopians Amhara Tigri a and Related Peoples written by William A. Shack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

Book The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch  3 Baruch  in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity

Download or read book The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch 3 Baruch in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity written by Harlow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the chief critical issues in the interpretation of 3 Baruch -- including text, genre, setting, function, literary integrity, and original authorship -- and offers a reading of the document as both a Jewish and a Christian text.

Book Gilgul

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  • Author : Guy Stroumsa
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 9004378693
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Gilgul written by Guy Stroumsa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General History of Africa

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  • Author : International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
  • Release : 1992-12-31
  • ISBN : 923101711X
  • Pages : 1071 pages

Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1992-12-31 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.