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Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia

Author : Marie-Jose Friedlander
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780768168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia written by Marie-Jose Friedlander and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia is a land of hidden treasures, and among the greatest are its remote churches, whose richly decorated interiors amaze and astound with their vibrant colours and extraordinary illustration. Yet steeped in ancient legend, and often situated in remote locations, a true appreciation and understanding of these unique churches and their spectacular murals has been restricted to a select few. Now, in Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia, Maria-Jose Friedlander provides a unique guide to the churches, their architecture and decoration. Ranging from the rock-hewn churches of the Tigray region to the spectacular timber-built cave church of Yemrehane Krestos, Maria-Jose Friedlander provides detailed descriptions of the wonderful murals and of the stories behind them. Many of the wall paintings contain inscriptions in Ge'ez - the ancient language of Ethiopia - and full translations of these scripts are given. Detailed plans show the exact location of the paintings within the churches and the superb colour photographs by Bob Friedlander show the many aspects of the churches and their decoration in rich detail.

Ethiopia's Hidden Treasures

Author : María-José Friedlander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethiopia's Hidden Treasures written by María-José Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lucy's Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia

Author : Yadesa Z. Bojia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933245140
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (451 download)

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Book Synopsis Lucy's Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia by : Yadesa Z. Bojia

Download or read book Lucy's Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia written by Yadesa Z. Bojia and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Garima Gospels

Author : Judith S. McKenzie
Publisher : Manar Al-Athar
ISBN 13 : 0995494673
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Garima Gospels written by Judith S. McKenzie and published by Manar Al-Athar. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, in the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia as well as in the Christian East. As this work shows, their artwork is closely related to Syriac, Armenian, Greek, and Georgian gospel books and to the art of late antique (Coptic) Egypt, Nubia, and Himyar (Yemen). Like most gospel manuscripts, the Garima Gospels contain ornately decorated canon tables which function as concordances of the different versions of the same material in the gospels. Analysis of these tables of numbered parallel passages, devised by Eusebius of Caesarea, contributes significantly to our understanding of the early development of the canonical four gospel collection. The origins and meanings of the decorated frames, portraits of the evangelists, Alexandrian circular pavilion, and unique image of the Jerusalem Temple are elucidated. The Garima texts and decoration demonstrate how a distinctive Christian culture developed in Aksumite Ethiopia, while also belonging to the mainstream late antique Mediterranean world. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this volume presents all of the Garima illuminated pages for the first time and extensive comparative material. It will be an essential resource for those studying late antique art and history, Ethiopia, eastern Christianity, New Testament textual criticism, and illuminated books.

Lucy's Legacy

Author : Dr. Donald Johanson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307396401
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Lucy's Legacy written by Dr. Donald Johanson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”–From Lucy’s Legacy In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the incredible story of his discovery of a partial female skeleton that revolutionized the study of human origins. Lucy literally changed our understanding of our world and who we come from. Since that dramatic find in 1974, there has been heated debate and–most important–more groundbreaking discoveries that have further transformed our understanding of when and how humans evolved. In Lucy’s Legacy, Johanson takes readers on a fascinating tour of the last three decades of study–the most exciting period of paleoanthropologic investigation thus far. In that time, Johanson and his colleagues have uncovered a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species, a transitional creature between apes and humans), spanning 400,000 years. As a result, we now have a unique fossil record of one branch of our family tree–that family being humanity–a tree that is believed to date back a staggering 7 million years. Focusing on dramatic new fossil finds and breakthrough advances in DNA research, Johanson provides the latest answers that post-Lucy paleoanthropologists are finding to questions such as: How did Homo sapiens evolve? When and where did our species originate? What separates hominids from the apes? What was the nature of Neandertal and modern human encounters? What mysteries about human evolution remain to be solved? Donald Johanson is a passionate guide on an extraordinary journey from the ancient landscape of Hadar, Ethiopia–where Lucy was unearthed and where many other exciting fossil discoveries have since been made–to a seaside cave in South Africa that once sheltered early members of our own species, and many other significant sites. Thirty-five years after Lucy, Johanson continues to enthusiastically probe the origins of our species and what it means to be human.

Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia

Author : David H. Shinn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810874571
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia written by David H. Shinn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia is clearly one of the most important countries in Africa. First of all, with about 75 million people, it is the third most populous country in Africa. Second, it is very strategically located, in the Horn of Africa and bordering Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia, with some of whom it has touchy and sometimes worse relations. Yet, its capital – Addis Ababa – is the headquarters of the African Union, the prime meeting place for Africa’s leaders. So, if things went poorly in Ethiopia, this would not be good for Africa, and for a long time this was the case, with internal disruption rife, until it was literally suppressed under the strong rule of the recently deceased Meles Zenawi. The Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia, Second Edition covers the history of Ethiopia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ethiopia.

God's Hidden Treasure

Author : Batya Shemesh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524530891
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book God's Hidden Treasure written by Batya Shemesh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE period of history between Moses and the Second Temple period is a big question mark in the minds of historians. When was the Torah written? How is it possible that we still have the same Bible that was written over 3000 years ago? What happened to the Ten Lost tribes? Why is there no mention of the story of Esther in world history? Why is Judaism passed on only through the mother? Batya Shemesh was bothered by these questions and more. With Gods help she discovered that many of the answers were secretly hidden in the Bible and waiting to be discovered.

Cry of the Giraffe

Author : Judie Oron
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1554513006
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Cry of the Giraffe written by Judie Oron and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of a better life. Wuditu and her family risk their lives to make this journey, which leads them to a refugee camp in Sudan, where they are separated. Terrified, 15-year-old Wuditu must return to Ethiopia alone. “Don’t give up, Wuditu! Be strong!” The words of her little sister come to Wuditu in a dream and give her the courage to keep going. Wuditu must find someone to give her food and shelter or she will surely die. Finally Wuditu is offered a solution: working as a servant. However, she quickly realizes that she has become a slave. With nowhere else to go, she stays — until the villagers discover that she is a falasha, a hated Jew. Only her dream of one day being reunited with her family gives her strength — until the arrival of a stranger heralds hope and a new life in Israel. Based on real events, Wuditu’s story mirrors the experiences of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.

Laying the Past to Rest

Author : Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787382915
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Laying the Past to Rest written by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). After decades of civil war, the EPRDF defeated the government in 1991, and has been the dominant party in Ethiopia ever since. Its political agenda of federalism, revolutionary democracy and a developmental state has been unique and controversial. Drawing on his own experience as a senior member of the TPLF/EPRDF leadership, and his unparalleled access to internal documentation, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe identifies the organizational, political and sociocultural factors that contributed to victory in the revolutionary war, particularly the Front's capacity for intellectual leadership. Charting its challenges and limitations, he analyses how the EPRDF managed the complex transition from a liberation movement into an established government. Finally, he evaluates the fate of the organization's revolutionary goals over its subsequent quarter-century in power, assessing the strengths and weaknesses the party has bequeathed to the country. Laying the Past to Rest is a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the genesis, successes and failings of the EPRDF's state-building project in contemporary Ethiopia, from a uniquely authoritative observer.

Picturing the Apocalypse

Author : Natasha O'Hear
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191002968
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Apocalypse written by Natasha O'Hear and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous Angel of the Apocalypse have captured the popular imagination. One can hardly open a newspaper or click on a news web site without reading about impending financial or climate change Armageddon, while the concept of the Four Horsemen pervades popular music, gaming, and satire. Yet few people know much about either the basic meaning or original context of these concepts or the multiplicity of different ways in which they have been interpreted by visual artists in particular. The visual history of this most widely illustrated of all the biblical books deserves greater attention. This book fills these gaps in a striking and original way by means of ten concise thematic chapters which explain the origins of these concepts from the book of Revelation in an accessible way. These explanations are augmented and developed via a carefully selected sample of the ways in which the concepts have been treated by artists through the centuries. The 120 visual examples are drawn from a wide range of time periods and media including the ninth-century Trier Apocalypse, thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Apocalypse Manuscripts such as the Lambeth and Trinity Apocalypses, the fourteenth-century Angers Apocalypse Tapestry, fifteenth-century Apocalypse altarpieces by Van Eyck and Memling, Dürer and Cranach's sixteenth-century Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works by William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, Max Beckmann, as well as film posters and stills, cartoons, and children's book illustrations. The final chapter demonstrates the continuing resonance of all the themes in contemporary religious, political, and popular thinking, while throughout the book a contrast will be drawn between those readers of Revelation who have seen it in terms of earthly revolutions in the here and now, and those who have adopted a more spiritual, otherworldly approach.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Author : Tahir Shah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559706414
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book In Search of King Solomon's Mines written by Tahir Shah and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, was possessed of extraordinary wealth. The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold. Over the ages, many have sought to find the source of the great king's wealth -- but none with so much flair, wit, or whimsy as Tahir Shah. Intrigued by a map he finds in a shop not far from the site of the temple, Shah assembles a multitude of clues to the location of Solomon's mines. From ancient texts to modern hearsay, all point across the Red Sea to Ethiopia. Shah's trail takes him on a wild ride by taxi, bus, camel, and donkey to the gold-bearing corners of this storied and beautiful country. He interviews the hyena man of Harar, is hauled up on a rope to enter a remote cliff-face monastery, and stumbles upon an illegal gold mine where thousands of men, women, and children dig with their hands. But the hardest leg of the journey is to the accursed mountain of Tullu Wallel, where legend says the devil keeps watch over the entrance to an ancient mine shaft... Book jacket.

Ethiopian Fairy Tale

Author : Tsvetan Rakyovski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781796659498
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Ethiopian Fairy Tale written by Tsvetan Rakyovski and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most translated Bulgarian book of 2018!This is a fairy tale. A fairy tale for people of all ages, in which everyone can discover a longing from their childhood. Every page that we read leads us deeper and deeper into the magical world of most cherished wishes and the Middle Ages. Together with the main character Mateo, we pursue a noble dream and embark on a variety of adventures.And the finale...The end of this fairy tale is filled with warmth and the joy of life. And of course, wherever we go, whatever we see, there is no better place than home and the most important thing in this world is love.This is an amazing and heart-warming fairy tale which makes you smile, believe in miracles and dare to dream.

The Complete Travel Guide for Ethiopia

Author : YouGuide
Publisher : Youguide International BV
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Travel Guide for Ethiopia written by YouGuide and published by Youguide International BV. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Complete Travel Guide Series" offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse destinations worldwide. Each book provides detailed insights into local culture, history, attractions, and practical travel tips, ensuring travellers are well-prepared to embark on memorable journeys. With vibrant illustrations, beautiful pictures and up to date information, this series is an essential companion for any type of traveller seeking enriching experiences.

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity

Author : Ken Parry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444333615
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity written by Ken Parry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this Companion offers an unparalleled survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship, art, culture and politics that make up the churches of Eastern Christianity. Covers both Byzantine traditions (such as the Greek, Russian and Georgian churches) and Oriental traditions (such as the Armenian, Coptic and Syrian churches) Brings together an international team of experts to offer the first book of its kind on the subject of Eastern Christianity Contributes to our understanding of recent political events in the Middle East and Eastern Europe by providing much needed background information May be used alongside The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999) for a complete student resource

The complete travel guide for Ethiopia

Author :
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837047774
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The complete travel guide for Ethiopia written by and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At YouGuide™, we are dedicated to bringing you the finest travel guides on the market, meticulously crafted for every type of traveler. Our guides serve as your ultimate companions, helping you make the most of your journeys around the world. Our team of dedicated experts works tirelessly to create comprehensive, up-todate, and captivating travel guides. Each guide is a treasure trove of essential information, insider insights, and captivating visuals. We go beyond the tourist trail, uncovering hidden treasures and sharing local wisdom that transforms your travels into extraordinary adventures. Countries change, and so do our guides. We take pride in delivering the most current information, ensuring your journey is a success. Whether you're an intrepid solo traveler, an adventurous couple, or a family eager for new horizons, our guides are your trusted companions to every country. For more travel guides and information, please visit www.youguide.com

The Basilicas of Ethiopia

Author : Mario di Salvo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609318
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Basilicas of Ethiopia written by Mario di Salvo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church of M?ry?m ??yon, sadly destroyed in 1535, and since then many hundreds of basilicas have been built in Ethiopia, many, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lalibela, literally 'hewn from the rock'. In this book, architectural historian and architect Mario di Salvo considers the unique architectural features of Ethiopia's basilicas and explains how they developed over time. Featuring almost 200 colour illustrations, this book is an attractive and comprehensive guide to some of Ethiopia's most inspiring religious buildings.

Ethiopia

Author : Steven Gish
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502622114
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Ethiopia written by Steven Gish and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is the oldest independent nation on the continent. This culturally diverse country has a rich and tumultuous history dating back thousands of years. In this book, readers will learn about the diverse landscape of Ethiopias past and present, including its peoples, geography, religion, economy, and culture.