RT Article
T1 Little Known Aspects of Veneration of the Old Testament Sabbath in Medieval Ethiopia

JF Scrinium
VO 13
IS 1
SP 154
OP 158
A1 Gusarova, Ekaterina V.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566786444
AB The Church of Ethiopia did observe both the Old Testament or the Jewish Sabbath and its Christian counterpart. This practice became one of the distinctive features of the Ethiopian Christianity. In various periods of its history the problem of veneration of the Jewish Sabbath provoked a lasting controversy among the country’s clergy. It was under the reign of the King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob (1434-1468) that the observance of both Sabbaths became the officially accepted by the Ethiopian Church and the State. However, some evidences of this custom can be traced for many centuries before. Following the Confession of faith of the King Claudius (1540-1559), the priority was given to the celebration of Sunday. The author of the article was fortunate to discover several cases of the preferential veneration of Sunday during a military campaign of 1781, described in the chronicle of the King Täklä Giyorgis I.

K1 Ethiopian Church
 : medieval Ethiopian Kingdom
 : Old Testament / Jewish Sabbath
 : veneration of Saturday and Sunday
 : King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob
 : King Claudius
 : Ethiopian Royal chronicles
 : King Täklä Giyorgis I

DO 10.1163/18177565-00131p13