Aethiopica
type: channel
description: Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies is an internationally refereed academic journal. The journal focuses on philology, linguistics, archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, religion, philosophy, literature, and manuscript studies with a regional emphasis on Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and related areas.
publisher: Universität Hamburg, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
language: en
publication name: Aethiopica
issn: 1430-1938
items: Periodization of Ethiopian History: Reflections, Questions, and some Modest Suggestions
items: Editorial
items: Table of Content
items: An Ethiopic 'Homily on Peter' attributed to Ephrem
items: In memoriam Michael A. Knibb (1938–2023)
items: Review of ERIC J. BECK, Justice and Mercy in the Apocalypse of Peter: A New Translation and Analysis of the Purpose of the Text
items: Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs
items: A Critical Text Edition, Translation, and Analysis of a Gǝʿǝz Tǝrgwame to the Book of Daniel
items: Review of KAI MERTEN, Mäsqäl. Die Traditionsgeschichte des Festes um das wahre Kreuz Jesu in Äthiopien
items: The Long Voyage of MS Paris, BnF, Éthiopien 32 from Egypt to France (1344/1371–1640s)
items: La destrucción patrimonial durante la guerra entre el sultanato de Bar Saʿad ad-Dīn y el reino cristiano de Etiopía (1529–1543)
items: Review of MIKAEL MUEHLBAUER, Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
items: The Historical Geography of Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) Involvement in the Conflict between the Solomonic Kingdom and the Forces of Imām Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ġāzī
items: In Search of Zärʾa Yaʿqob: A Study of the Philosophy and Intellectual History of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿqob and the Debate Concerning its Authorship
items: Review of SAMANTHA KELLY, Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome
items: Stranded in Dongola: MS Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. et. 44, 71v–76v, a Colophon by Takla ʾAlfā, Reconsidered
items: Battles over State Making on a Frontier: Dilemmas of Schooling, Young People and Agro-Pastoralism in Hamar, Southwest Ethiopia
items: The Mirror of Intelligence and the Controversy on Christ’s Unction in the Ethiopian Church
items: Review of FEDERICO FALOPPA, Sbiancare un etiope. La costruzione di un immaginario razzista
items: Islamic Law, Linguistic Complexity and Scientific Knowledge: A Note on an Arabic Zoological List from Ethiopia
items: Review of FRIEDRICH JULIUS BIEBER, Reisen nach Äthiopien, Tagebücher 1904, 1905, 1909 ed. SAYURI YOSHIDA
items: The Archives of Kirsten Pedersen (1932–2017): Inventory and Research Perspectives
items: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/2180
items: Review of MARIE HUBER, Developing Heritage—Developing Countries: Ethiopian NationBuilding and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960–1980
items: Ethiopian TV Drama: Development from Moot-Court Rudimentary Viewing to Screening Advanced Serial
items: Review of DAVIDE CHINIGÒ, Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity
items: Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari
items: Emotions, Morality, and Cognition: The Unprecedented Scope of the Concept of the Heart in Amharic
items: Review of BAHRU ZEWDE, ኅብር ሕይወቴ፡ ግለ ታሪክ (ḫǝbr ḥǝywäte: gǝllä tarik, ‘My Composite Life: Autobiography’)
items: Review of MICHAEL W. THOMAS, Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres
items: Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023
items: Review of ARCHIE T. WRIGHT, Basics of Ancient Ethiopic: A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon, Foreword by LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK
items: Review of RAINER VOIGT, Tigrinische Bibliographie

Periodization of Ethiopian History: Reflections, Questions, and some Modest Suggestions
type: item
description: Historians have for many decades struggled with issues of periodization. In comparison to many other regions, scholars of Ethiopian history, particularly after the Aksumite period, have written comparatively little on this subject. This article considers some of the weaknesses of periodizations based on dynastic change or periods of a strong central state. It also suggests that attention to gender, class, geography, and ethnicity may assist in formulating, but also complicate periodizations.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ethiopian History
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Monarchy
  topic: keywords
subject: Chronology
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Archaeology
  topic: keywords
creator: Steven Kaplan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Steven Kaplan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 9
ending page: 27
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2096

Editorial
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: Editorial
  topic: keywords
creator: Aaron Butts
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Butts Aaron https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 7
ending page: 8
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2394

Table of Content
type: item
subject: Front matter
  topic: section
subject: Table of Content
  topic: keywords
creator: Editor
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Editor https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 3
ending page: 5
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2393

An Ethiopic 'Homily on Peter' attributed to Ephrem
type: item
description: An edition, with English translation, is provided of an Ethiopic ‘Homily on Peter’, attributed to Ephrem the Syrian (d.373), which is uniquely attested in MS Ethio-SPaRe UM-046, fols 148v–151v. This Ethiopic homily ultimately goes back—undoubtedly via Arabic—to a Syriac stanzaic poem (soḡiṯā) recently edited by S. P. Brock.
subject: Miscellaneous
  topic: section
subject: Syriac
  topic: keywords
subject: Ephrem
  topic: keywords
subject: Jacob of Serugh
  topic: keywords
subject: Translation
  topic: keywords
creator: Aaron Michael Butts
creator: Ted Erho
creator: Jonas Karlsson
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aaron Michael Butts, Ted Erho, Jonas Karlsson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 285
ending page: 305
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2309

In memoriam Michael A. Knibb (1938–2023)
type: item
subject: Personalia
  topic: section
subject: obituary
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessandro Bausi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Bausi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 306
ending page: 308
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2267

Review of ERIC J. BECK, Justice and Mercy in the Apocalypse of Peter: A New Translation and Analysis of the Purpose of the Text
type: item
description: Book review.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Apocalypse of Peter
  topic: keywords
subject: Translation
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessandro Bausi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Bausi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 309
ending page: 314
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2264

Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs
type: item
description: Dissertation abstract
subject: Dissertation Abstracts
  topic: section
subject: Creation
  topic: keywords
subject: Angelology
  topic: keywords
subject: Angels
  topic: keywords
creator: Sophia Dege-Müller
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sophia Dege-Müller https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 349
ending page: 352
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2186

A Critical Text Edition, Translation, and Analysis of a Gǝʿǝz Tǝrgwame to the Book of Daniel
type: item
description: Dissertation abstract
subject: Dissertation Abstracts
  topic: section
subject: Ge'ez
  topic: keywords
subject: Tergwame
  topic: keywords
subject: Book of Daniel
  topic: keywords
subject: Hippolytus of Rome
  topic: keywords
subject: Isho'dad of Merv
  topic: keywords
subject: text edition
  topic: keywords
creator: James Hamrick
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 James Hamrick https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 352
ending page: 354
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2195

Review of KAI MERTEN, Mäsqäl. Die Traditionsgeschichte des Festes um das wahre Kreuz Jesu in Äthiopien
type: item
description: Book review.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: True Cross
  topic: keywords
creator: Christine Ghali
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Christine Ghali https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 314
ending page: 318
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2258

The Long Voyage of MS Paris, BnF, Éthiopien 32 from Egypt to France (1344/1371–1640s)
type: item
description: The study of archival documents inserted in the pages and margins of MS Paris, BnF, Éthiopien 32 uncovers the long voyage of this codex from Egypt to France. It is unclear if it was produced in the thirteenth or in the fourteenth century, in Egypt or in Ethiopia, but it was certainly donated by king Säyfä ʾArʿad (r.1344–1371) to the new Ethiopian community established in a monastery in Middle Egypt, Dayr al-Muḥarraq. From 1388 to 1507/1508, this manuscript was used to store its legal and from Egypt to France (1344/1371 administrative documents. In the 1520s, MS Paris, BnF, Éthiopien 32 was transferred to the Cairene monastery of Dayr ʾAbū Mīnā, where a new Ethiopian church was built next to the Syriac and Armenian communities. In the 1640s, French merchant Jean Magy acquired this manuscript in Cairo, perhaps in Dayr ʾAbū Mīnā itself, on the account of chancellor Pierre Séguier (1588–1672). It is now preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ethiopic manuscripts
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopic Archives
  topic: keywords
subject: Egypt
  topic: keywords
subject: France
  topic: keywords
subject: monasteries
  topic: keywords
creator: Martina Ambu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Martina Ambu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 28
ending page: 45
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2292

La destrucción patrimonial durante la guerra entre el sultanato de Bar Saʿad ad-Dīn y el reino cristiano de Etiopía (1529–1543)
type: item
description: Dissertation abstract
subject: Dissertation Abstracts
  topic: section
subject: Bar Saʾad ad-Dīn
  topic: keywords
subject: Aḥmad b. Ibrahīm
  topic: keywords
subject: heritage
  topic: keywords
subject: Muslim-Christian relations
  topic: keywords
creator: Mario Lozano Alonso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mario Lozano Alonso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 354
ending page: 356
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2251

Review of MIKAEL MUEHLBAUER, Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
type: item
description: Book review.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Tigray
  topic: keywords
subject: Rock-hewn churches
  topic: keywords
creator: Michael Gervers
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Michael Gervers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 318
ending page: 320
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2293

The Historical Geography of Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) Involvement in the Conflict between the Solomonic Kingdom and the Forces of Imām Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ġāzī
type: item
description: The Səmen Mountains, the core region of Betä Ǝsraʾel political autonomy (fourteenth–seventeenth century), played a key role in the sixteenth-century conflict between the Solomonic Kingdom and the forces of Imām Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ġāzī. While the involvement of the autonomous Betä Ǝsraʾel in this conflict has been addressed in scholarship, the sites associated with this involvement had not been accurately pinpointed. In 1959, Charles Fraser Beckingham published an article, in which he traced geographical aspects of the campaigns of 1542 waged as part of the above-mentioned conflict. A key site which he addressed was the ‘Mountain of the Jews’. This stronghold played a key role in these campaigns, and within it, the Solomonic monarchy found a safe haven and a base from which to launch the war to re-take the northern Ethiopian Highlands. Beckingham correctly suggested a general location for this stronghold but was unable to locate it with precision due to lack of detailed geographical information on the eastern Səmen Mountains. Based on a detailed examination of historical and modern maps, satellite images, and information posted on social media, this study suggests an exact location for this stronghold and other sites mentioned in the context of Betä Ǝsraʾel involvement in the conflict in question. This enables this involvement to be re-evaluated and better understood in light of the precise geographical context of the events in question.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Historical Geography
  topic: keywords
subject: Jewish-Christian-Islamic Relations
  topic: keywords
subject: Səmen Mountains (Simien, Semien)
  topic: keywords
subject: Barr Saʿd ad-dīn (ʿAdal)
  topic: keywords
subject: Bäyäda
  topic: keywords
creator: Bar Kribus
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bar Kribus https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 46
ending page: 82
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2281

In Search of Zärʾa Yaʿqob: A Study of the Philosophy and Intellectual History of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿqob and the Debate Concerning its Authorship
type: item
description: Dissertation abstract
subject: Dissertation Abstracts
  topic: section
subject: Philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: 17th century Ethiopia
  topic: keywords
subject: Gǝʿǝz literature
  topic: keywords
subject: History of Philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: Authorship debate
  topic: keywords
subject: Forgery
  topic: keywords
creator: Jonathan Egid
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jonathan Egid https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 356
ending page: 358
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2304

Review of SAMANTHA KELLY, Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Medieval Ethiopia
  topic: keywords
subject: Rome
  topic: keywords
creator: Anaïs Wion
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anais Wion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 320
ending page: 324
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2317

Stranded in Dongola: MS Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. et. 44, 71v–76v, a Colophon by Takla ʾAlfā, Reconsidered
type: item
description: The paper offers a re-edition of a valuable first-hand account concerning sixteenth-century Sudan, recorded in Gǝʿǝz by the Ethiopian monk Takla ʾAlfā during his stay at Dongola in 1596. Notably, Takla ʾAlfā was the only known Ethiopian visitor to post-medieval Dongola to leave an account of his visit. The colophon, MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. et. 44, 71v–76v, is preceded by hymns composed by the monk and offers insights into the circumstances of their creation. The text, which represents an expanded colophon with autobiographical elements, has received limited scholarly attention, but has a number of remarkable features. It sheds light on some philological practices and indicates a connection between the fast of our Lady Mary of the Mount of Qwǝsqwām and king Śarḍa Dǝngǝl. The newly identified reference to ǧǝlābā merchants in the colophon is the earliest known mention of the term in primary sources concerning Sudan. While the reference to a light in the sky remains vague, it adds to the corpus of Ethiopic narratives featuring celestial apparitions as meaningful quasi-supernatural elements or signs.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ethiopian History
  topic: keywords
subject: Nubia
  topic: keywords
subject: Dongola
  topic: keywords
subject: Manuscript Studies
  topic: keywords
subject: Egypt
  topic: keywords
creator: Daria Elagina
creator: Dorota Dzierzbicka
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daria Elagina, Dorota Dzierzbicka https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-20
publication date: 2025-05-20
starting page: 83
ending page: 107
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2283

Battles over State Making on a Frontier: Dilemmas of Schooling, Young People and Agro-Pastoralism in Hamar, Southwest Ethiopia
type: item
description: Dissertation abstract
subject: Dissertation Abstracts
  topic: section
subject: State making
  topic: keywords
subject: Agro-Pastoralism
  topic: keywords
subject: Education
  topic: keywords
creator: Sabrina Maurus
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sabrina Maurus https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 358
ending page: 361
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2306

The Mirror of Intelligence and the Controversy on Christ’s Unction in the Ethiopian Church
type: item
description: The present article examines the theological treatise The Mirror of Intelligence within the context of the controversy about Christ’s unction in the Ethiopian Church during the seventeenth century. The introductory section offers an overview of the early phase of the debate, presenting the diverse positions involved and tracing the evolution of the theological dispute. The subsequent two sections delve into the use of rhetorical devices in The Mirror of Intelligence and other contemporary theological works. Through this analysis, the article explores the intersection of creativity and religious reflection in literary production, shedding light on the pivotal role of figurative language as a medium of theological discourse.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ethiopian Christian Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Christology
  topic: keywords
subject: Theological treaties
  topic: keywords
creator: Giulia Casella
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Giulia Casella https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 108
ending page: 123
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2171

Review of FEDERICO FALOPPA, Sbiancare un etiope. La costruzione di un immaginario razzista
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Second World War
  topic: keywords
subject: Fascist Italy
  topic: keywords
creator: Giulia Casella
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Giulia Casella https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 324
ending page: 327
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2286

Islamic Law, Linguistic Complexity and Scientific Knowledge: A Note on an Arabic Zoological List from Ethiopia
type: item
description: In the present article a list of Arabic animal names copied in a codex kept in a collection in the town of Agaro (Jimma Zone, Oromia Region) is published and analyzed. Together with the Arabic words, the short text contains also explicatory glosses and translations into Amharic and Oromo. The authors describe the origin and the function of the text, setting it into the wider framework of the production of lists and glossaries in the manuscript traditions of Ethiopia. They then study the structure and content of the list from zoological and linguistic points of view, highlighting the interpretational issues that the author of the text had to face and solve.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Arabic manuscripts
  topic: keywords
subject: Ajäm
  topic: keywords
subject: zoography
  topic: keywords
subject: glossary
  topic: keywords
subject: Arabic-Ethiopic translation literature
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessandro Gori
creator: Philippe Provençal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Gori, Philippe Provençal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 124
ending page: 151
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2057

Review of FRIEDRICH JULIUS BIEBER, Reisen nach Äthiopien, Tagebücher 1904, 1905, 1909 ed. SAYURI YOSHIDA
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Travel Accounts
  topic: keywords
creator: Alexander Chenchenko
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alexander Chenchenko https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 327
ending page: 330
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2153

The Archives of Kirsten Pedersen (1932–2017): Inventory and Research Perspectives
type: item
description: Catholic nun and historian, Kirsten Pedersen (1932–2017), also known as Kirsten Stoffregen Pedersen and Sister Abraham, is renowned for her scholarly work on the history of Ethiopian Christianity. Located in Jerusalem, her archives (books and documents) were inventoried by the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (CRFJ) in 2023 and then donated to the library of the École Biblique et Archéologique (EBAF) in Jerusalem. The aim of this article is firstly to provide an overview of Pedersen’s archives to encourage all researchers to consult them. Providing biographical and bibliographical elements about Pedersen, this paper describes the more interesting books and printed materials owned by her as well as provides a short description of the archival boxes, highlighting the most remarkable documents. Furthermore this paper aims to show the scientific interest of these archives, suggesting some of the research prospects open to researchers thanks to the documents preserved in them.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Jerusalem
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Archives
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian History
  topic: keywords
subject: History of Jerusalem
  topic: keywords
creator: Stéphane Ancel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Stéphane Ancel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 152
ending page: 186
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2191

https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/2180
type: item
title: Review of MORENO VERGARI, ed., with the contributions of AHMEDSAAD MOHAMMED OMER, GIORGIO BANTI, GIANNI DORE, MORENO VERGARI, and ROBERTA VERGARI, Housing and Dwelling Among the Saho-speaking Communities of Eritrea and Ethiopia: History, Anthropology and Lexicography
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Saho
  topic: keywords
subject: Eritrea
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopia
  topic: keywords
creator: Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 330
ending page: 335
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2180

Review of MARIE HUBER, Developing Heritage—Developing Countries: Ethiopian NationBuilding and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960–1980
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Development
  topic: keywords
subject: UNESCO
  topic: keywords
subject: Heritage sites
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian nation building
  topic: keywords
creator: Nadine Appelhans
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nadine Appelhans https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 335
ending page: 337
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2279

Ethiopian TV Drama: Development from Moot-Court Rudimentary Viewing to Screening Advanced Serial
type: item
description: It is now more than one hundred years since theatre and cinema were introduced to Ethiopia, and PhD dissertations, books, and journal articles pertinent to the arts have been published by expatriate and local academia. In the same vein, hundreds of TV dramas have been produced in Ethiopia in the last 60 years under various socio-economic and political milieus of the Imperial era, the Därg military government, and the EPRDF. Ethiopian TV drama as a subject area, nonetheless, has not attracted the attention of national and international researchers adequately so far. This article attempts to fill this gap in scholarship by illustrating the development of Ethiopian television drama that started in 1964 with the screening of a Moot-Court exercise of law students of Haile Sellasie I University, to gradually acquire a qualitative change with professional production of the serial Gämäna in 2001/2009. The study rather goes beyond this historical period highlighting the overview of the last six decades by way of depicting the legacy of the serial Gämäna as a conclusion. This study hopefully will contribute to the general comprehension of Ethiopian television drama in particular and African TV drama in general. It also commemorates the 60th anniversary of the advent of television drama in Ethiopia.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: TV
  topic: keywords
subject: TV drama
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian film
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian television
  topic: keywords
subject: free-to-air channel
  topic: keywords
creator: Aboneh Ashagrie
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aboneh Ashagrie https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 187
ending page: 214
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2265

Review of DAVIDE CHINIGÒ, Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: State building
  topic: keywords
creator: Felix Girke
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Felix Girke https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 337
ending page: 339
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2137

Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari
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description: There is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed with another morpheme (Cerulli, Leslau). The present article attempts a solution to this problem by considering it against the background of the overall development of the pronominal system of Harari (personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns), on the one hand, and the historical areal context, on the other. The author considers -zo as the more likely starting point and proposes a fivestage development for the emergence of azzo. In the final section, however, the reverse process, the development of -zo from azzo, is briefly discussed as a possible alternative.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Linguistics
  topic: keywords
subject: Harari
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethio-Semitic languages
  topic: keywords
creator: Ewald Wagner
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ewald Wagner https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 215
ending page: 249
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2164

Emotions, Morality, and Cognition: The Unprecedented Scope of the Concept of the Heart in Amharic
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description: This study sheds light on the unique conceptualization of the heart in Amharic, based on dictionary data, corpus data, and a self-collected corpus of text excerpts. What stands out is the unusually vast scope of the concept, which embraces not only emotions, character and morality, but also cognition, and, to some extent, rationality. Thus, the noun ləbb can, depending on the context, be translated into English as ‘mind’, ‘good sense’, or even ‘reason’. The broad scope of the concept is even better seen in light of the derivatives of the word ləbb, most notably the noun ləbbuna / ləbbona, connected with psyche, reason, and the sense of right and wrong, as well as the adjectives ləbbam and ləbbeñña, meaning ‘intelligent, attentive’. The uniqueness of the Amharic worldview is also reflected in the conceptualizations underlying the single idiomatic phrases formed with the noun ləbb, as well as the connection it has to the other parts of the Amharic worldview. Particularly worth highlighting here is the figure of God, around whom the whole Amharic worldview revolves, as well as the concept of aʾǝməro ‘mind’, which does not introduce the same stark opposition between the mind and the heart as the one known from European languages and discourses.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: concept of the heart
  topic: keywords
subject: Amharic worldview
  topic: keywords
subject: ethnolinguistics
  topic: keywords
subject: embodied cognition
  topic: keywords
subject: Amharic semantics
  topic: keywords
subject: Amharic language
  topic: keywords
subject: worldview
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian mentality
  topic: keywords
subject: linguitic relativity
  topic: keywords
subject: anthropological linguistics
  topic: keywords
creator: Aleksander Kacprzak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aleksander Kacprzak https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 250
ending page: 271
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2181

Review of BAHRU ZEWDE, ኅብር ሕይወቴ፡ ግለ ታሪክ (ḫǝbr ḥǝywäte: gǝllä tarik, ‘My Composite Life: Autobiography’)
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
creator: Hewan Semon Marye
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hewan Semon Marye https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 339
ending page: 342
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2149

Review of MICHAEL W. THOMAS, Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: Cinema
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessandro Jedlowski
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Jedlowski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 342
ending page: 345
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2291

Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023
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description: Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Bibliography
  topic: keywords
subject: Linguistics
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Semitic
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopian Cushitic
  topic: keywords
subject: Omotic
  topic: keywords
creator: Magdalena Krzyżanowska
creator: Maria Bulakh
creator: Karin Ghion-Hamadu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Krzyżanowska Magdalena, Bulakh Maria, Ghion-Hamadu Karin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 272
ending page: 284
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2395

Review of ARCHIE T. WRIGHT, Basics of Ancient Ethiopic: A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon, Foreword by LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Textbook
  topic: keywords
subject: Geez
  topic: keywords
subject: teaching book
  topic: keywords
creator: Jonas Karlsson
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jonas Karlsson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 345
ending page: 347
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2272

Review of RAINER VOIGT, Tigrinische Bibliographie
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Tigrinya
  topic: keywords
creator: Bairu Tafla
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bairu Tafla https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-19
publication date: 2025-05-19
starting page: 348
ending page: 348
doi: 10.15460/aethiopica.27.2284