The Ethiopian Orthodox Church's tradition on the Holy Cross
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross is a volume that combines both ancient and derived Ethiopic literature on the Cross. The work brings together all the major sources from manuscripts preserved in different monasteries and edited and translated into English. The sources incl...
| Published in: | Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2017]
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Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity (10)
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| Series/Journal: | Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity
10 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Äthiopische Kirche
/ Veneration of the Cross
/ Theologia crucis
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| Further subjects: | B
Holy Cross
B YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān Doctrines B Jesus Christ Crucifixion |
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| Summary: | The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross is a volume that combines both ancient and derived Ethiopic literature on the Cross. The work brings together all the major sources from manuscripts preserved in different monasteries and edited and translated into English. The sources include homilies by Minas bishop of Aksum, John Chrysostom, James of Sarug, as well as a number of anonymous authors, all translated from Greek during the Aksumite era. The derived literature includes works by the famous men of the pen, including the fifteenth-century Abba Giyorgis of Sägla and Emperor Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob. Poetic hymns to the Cross constitute a part of the collection, one of these being glorification of the Cross by Abba Baḥrǝy, author of several important works |
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| ISBN: | 9004352511 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004352513 |