Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project

by Steve Delamarter (Editor), Melaku Terefe (Editor)

Overview

The series Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies offers, in the first place, catalogues of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, whose purpose it is to digitize and catalogue collections of Ethiopic manuscripts in North America and around the world. Beyond this, though, the series offers a venue for monographs, revised dissertations, and texts that explore the rich historical, literary, and artistic traditions of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. From the Series Foreword.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780227173510
Publisher:	James Clarke & Co. Ltd
Publication date:	04/28/2011
Series:	EMIP , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steve Delamarter is Professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Director of the EMIP, Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature's Consultation on the Ethiopic Bible and Literature, and Project Co-Director in the British Library Endangered Archives Programme project in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Delamarter is also head of the steering committee for the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Abbreviations Preface Introduction Descr

Editorial Reviews

‘...the catalogue and the companion volume mark an important step towards the establishing of a better standard of Ethiopic codicology, where quantitative evaluation comes to play a more central role...’

Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, 13 (2010) - Alessandro Bausi