Little Known Aspects of Veneration of the Old Testament Sabbath in Medieval Ethiopia
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 cont...
| Publié dans: | Scrinium |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2017
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Scrinium
Année: 2017, Volume: 13, Numéro: 1, Pages: 154-158 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CG Christianisme et politique HB Ancien Testament KAF Moyen Âge tardif KAH Époque moderne KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord KDF Église orthodoxe |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
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
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| Résumé: | 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.
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contient: | In: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p13 |