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SUMMARY:The Ethiopic Reception of Syriac Literature
DESCRIPTION:Öffentlicher Vortrag im Rahmen der Summer School „Working in Ma
 nuscript Studies: Traditional and New Approaches, with a focus on the Ethio
 pian and Eritrean tradition “ vom 04. bis 15.09.2023\n\nThere is a long-sta
 nding debate in the field of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies about so-called
  Syriac influences on Ethiopic Christianity. I. Guidi and especially C. Con
 ti Rossini argued that Syriac Christians exerted a great deal of influence 
 on Ethiopic Christianity during Late Antiquity as foreign missionaries who 
 fled the Chalcedonian Empire for Aksum, where, among other things, they int
 roduced monasticism, translated the Bible into Ethiopic, and more broadly b
 rought about a “second-christianisation” of Aksum. Subsequent scholarship, 
 including especially that of H. J. Polotsky, P. Marrassini, and more recent
 ly A. Brita, has challenged this thesis – and rightfully so, in my view. In
  this lecture, I want to reorient the conversation to a later period, tradi
 tionally called the Solomonic period, which commenced in 1270. In particula
 r, I focus in this lecture on the Ethiopic reception of Syriac literature. 
 A sizeable body of Ethiopic literature is attributed to Syriac authors and/
 or ultimately goes back to Syriac originals, including texts associated wit
 h Aphrahaṭ (fl. 336–345), Ephrem (d. 373), Jacob of Serugh (d. 521), Philo
 xenos of Mabbug (d. 523), Isaac of Nineveh (seventh century), Dadishoʿ Qaṭ
 raya (seventh century), John of Dalyatha (eighth century), Theodore bar Kon
 i (eighth century), and Ishoʿdad of Merv (ninth century), not to mention a 
 number of anonymous texts. As a rule, Arabic served as the bridge by which 
 Syriac texts reached Ethiopic. The Ethiopic reception of Syriac literature 
 nicely illustrates the complexities of the connected histories of Ethiopic 
 and Syriac Christianity.\n\nPlease let us know if you would like to attend 
 by sending us an email to aethiopistik@uni-hamburg.de with your name and af
 filiation before September 1, 2023.\n\nWe shall be hopefully be able to off
 er an online stream via Zoom; please specify if you are not able to come in
  person but would like to receive the Zoom link.\n\nThursday, 7 September 2
 023 17:00 CEST Universität Hamburg Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Western Wing, Ro
 om 221 20146 Hamburg (also on Zoom)
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