Getatchew Haile

Getatchew Haile
Saint John's University · Medieval Studies

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, West Germany. PhD., Semitic Philology, 1962

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January 1976 - present
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • Preparation of catalogues of Ethiopian manuscripts
January 1970 - January 1971
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • Taught African Literature in English, Ethiopian Literature in English Translation, and Studies in African Cultures.
January 1962 - January 1974
Addis Ababa University
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • Taught Amharic Grammar, Amharic Literature, Ethiopic (Gəˁəz) Grammar, Gəˁəz Literature, Arabic Grammar, and Semitic Linguistics.
Education
January 1954 - January 1957
Coptic Theological College, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Field of study
  • Social Sciences
January 1954 - January 1957
The American University in Cairo
Field of study
  • Social Sciences

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The main themes of the text, occasionally ascribed to Ezra (Salathiel), are the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the end of the world, the future rulers of Ethiopia, and the honouring of the Sabbaths. It is cast in the spirit of 4 Ezra, quoting it and Jubilees occasionally and extensively. As in 4 Ezra, its author is interested in knowing and declari...
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The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History. By John Binns. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. xx + 297 pp. $115.00 hardcover. - Volume 87 Issue 1 - Getatchew Haile
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Prof. Getatchew Haile's CV, listing over 150 books and articles, as of 2018.
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It is clear that, due to the age of the manuscripts of the Abba Gärima Gospels and the condition in which they are preserved, some leaves of one Gospel manuscript have been inadvertently rebound with another Gospel manuscript. My presentation follows Garima I and Garima II, as titled, which have been graciously sent to me for this conference. For m...
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This book draws on Leonardo Cohen’s 2005 doctoral thesis for the University of Haifa. It shows that from the Jesuits’ point of view, undertaking their missionary endeavor in Africa meant nothing less than giving their lives to Jesus. The missionaries had to travel a most perilous route to reach their destination and were not rewarded with converts...
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One of the many works of Abba Giyorgis of Gasǝč̣č̣a/SäŠgla (d. 1527) is a Wǝddase Mäsqäl “Praises of the Cross”, a work which previously was known only from Abba Giyorgis’s Acts (Gädl) and oral tradition. Recently, however, the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Abäba/Collegeville, has discovered and microfilmed a 16th-century copy of th...
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The hamlet of Lalibala (or Lalibela) in the Lasta mountains, in the north central province of Wallo, Ethiopia (at 12°02′N by 39°2′E, altitude: 8,500 ft.), is famed for 11 monolithic churches hewn directly out of mountainsides. Most of these monumental churches, which some historians call the eighth wonder of the world, were built during the Middle...
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This essay offers the first English-language translations of Amharic poetry written by Ethiopian immigrants to the United States. Following an introduction to the Amharic language and the central place of poetry in Ethiopian literature and cultural life, the author discusses the work of four poets. The poems of Tewodros Abebe, Amha Asfaw, Alemayehu...
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From Emperor Haile Selassie to H.J. Polotsky. An Ethiopian and Semitic miscellany. By UllendorffEdward. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 42.) pp. xix, 192, illus. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995. DM 158. - Volume 6 Issue 3 - Getatchew Haile
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From the Bible to Enrico Cerulli. A miscellany of Ethiopian and Semitic papers. By UllendorffEdward. (Äthiopistische Forchungen Band 32.) pp. 235, illus. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag., 1990. DM 70. - Volume 2 Issue 1 - Getatchew Haile
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This essay offers the first English-language translations of Amharic poetry written by Ethiopian immigrants to the United States. Following an introduction to the Amharic language and the central place of poetry in Ethiopian literature and cultural life, the author discusses the work of four poets. The poems of Tewodros Abebe, Amha Asfaw, Alemayehu...
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Amharic translation of the hagiographies of the Estifanosite monks who flourished and were martyred in the fifteenth century
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The Works of Abba Bārey with Other Documents Concerning the Oromo, in Amharic
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Nous n'avons pas beaucoup de certitudes sur l'histoire de l'Ethiopie entre le moment ou le christianisme y fut introduit, vers 330 A.D., et la montee de la dynastie Zagwe, au XIIe siecle. Il parait neanmoins certain qu'un certain nombre de personnalites religieuses, originaires du monde hellenistique, vinrent y etablir des centres monastiques. Matt...
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Under the title ‘The American Dilemma on the Horn’, Bereket Habte Selassie published in this Journal , Vol. 22, No. 2, June 1984, pp. 249–72, a lawyer's presentation of a client's case: that of the Eritrean separatists. Although my views do not necessarily represent those held by the régime in Addis Ababa, they do indicate why Ethiopians resolutely...
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Our information to date about the possible existence of a work known as ṭomaräǝsbǝ't or ‘Epistle of Humanity’, by Emperor Zär'a Ya'ǝqob (1434–68) comes from the works of the Emperor himself. It is important that we study closely his description of this work in order to determine whether the contents of a given manuscript could be at least part of t...
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Richard Pankhurst (ed. and tr.), in collaboration with Germa-Selassie Asfaw: Tax records and inventories of Emperor Téwodros of Ethiopia (1855–1868). 173 pp., map. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978. £7. - Volume 43 Issue 1 - Getatchew Haile
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Presentation, edition et traduction d'une homelie ethiopienne, le premier document que nous ayons a l'appui du fait que Salama et Frumentius sont deux personnages differents (conformement a la these de Dillmann).
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Luther studies have traditionally been confessionally oriented. Today, this author's significance is also secular, and it is most readily interpreted by disinterested literature teachers. Disputes about his writings radically increased European literacy rates. His songs and pamphlets engaged popular tradition in order to achieve broad, democratic a...

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