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Oldest Illustrated Christian Manuscript in Ethiopia?
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Posted on 07/05/2010 7:06:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Nice post. “Cool stuff” I agree.
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:12:01 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
(ui)
To: Joe 6-pack
Illuminated manuscript ping for you!
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:12:42 PM PDT
by
iceskater
(I can see November from my house.)
To: iceskater
Thanks! I spent this weekend reorganizing my studio so I can get back to work on some of my own :-)
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:33:32 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Steelfish
Here in the DC area there is a fairly large Ethopian community. Due to modern religious turmoil and restructuring it's about 1/3 Coptic, 1/3 Baptist and 1/3 Pentecostal.
They have a regular Ethiopian/Eritrean broadcasting time on a local cable station where you can see all three groups at religious worship, and all of them together, plus the Amharic speaking Eritreans dancing, singing, etc.
Yes, they are different from ~ yet very much the same as all other Christians.
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:40:25 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Steelfish
Here' a nice pic :
A page from the Garima Gospels - the world's oldest Christian book found in a remote monastery in Ethiopia.
The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of the country, which is in the Tigray region at 7,000 feet.
Experts believe it is also the earliest example of book binding still attached to the original pages.
The survival of the Gospels is incredible considering the country has been under Muslim invasion, Italian invasion and a fire in the 1930s destroyed the monastery's church.
They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge'ez.
There are two volumes which date from the same time, but the second is written in a different hand from the first. Both contain illustrations and the four Gospels.
Though the texts had been mentioned by the occasional traveller since the 1950s, it had been thought they dated from the 11th century at the earliest.
Carbon dating, however, gives a date between 330 and 650 - which tantalisingly overlaps the date Abba Garima arrived in the country.
So the first volume could be in his hand - even if he didn't complete the task in a day as the oral tradition states.
The charity Ethiopian Heritage Fund that was set up to help preserve the treasures in the country has made the stunning discovery.
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To: Quix
A cool find here. Something I thought you might be interested in.
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:43:41 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:46:44 PM PDT
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: SeekAndFind
Wonderful post about our African brothers. Thanks.
To: Captain Beyond
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posted on
07/05/2010 7:56:06 PM PDT
by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: SeekAndFind
So, within two hundred years Christianity had traveled all the way to Ethiopia and established to the such a degree as to produce a work of art like this. But then the early Church was always strong in Africa, especially North Africa. Agustine and, I believe, Tertullian were both from North Africa.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/05/2010 8:47:07 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: FrogMom; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 240B; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
07/05/2010 9:05:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv; circlecity; All
When the great arguments about Christian doctrine between Constantinople and Alexandria were playing out at the time of the Council of Nicea, some of the loosers fled to Ethiopia. I was reading about the confusion of different versions of the Gospels recently. It was pointed out that they were copied many times and errors crept in. It was also said that if an Alexandrian version and a version from Constantinople were available, the Alexandrian was more likely to be correct, as their copyists were much better. Since many who fled persecution were from the Alexandria faction, perhaps their skill was transferred to Ethiopia.
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posted on
07/05/2010 11:26:58 PM PDT
by
gleeaikin
(question authority)
To: SeekAndFind
......has been saved by a British charity.....
From what was it saved? Stolen is a more precisely accurate verb. Since it is 2000 years old, the manuscript is obviously revered and cared for.
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posted on
07/06/2010 4:26:49 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
To: Joe 6-pack
Can’t wait to see your work!
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posted on
07/06/2010 6:29:32 AM PDT
by
iceskater
(I can see November from my house.)
To: iceskater
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posted on
07/06/2010 6:39:04 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: bert
**From what was it saved? Stolen is a more precisely accurate verb***
My thoughts exactly. I thought of the Sinaiaticus manuscript and how it was never returned as was promised when taken.
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...
The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of Ethiopia Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1292150/Worlds-illustrated-Christian-bible-discovered-Ethiopian-monastery.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline#ixzz0sv8tFmE5
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posted on
07/06/2010 9:36:05 AM PDT
by
NYer
("God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar." St. Maximilian Kolbe)
To: gleeaikin
Christianity went (and sometimes fled) east as well; Christian bishops or whatnot were already in the Khan court in China when the Polos got there. A “heretical” monastery in what is now Iran preserved the classical learning that so entranced the Muzzies later on, and because of that monastery, classical Greek and Roman works wound up in Moslem-occupied Spain, to reenter Europe that way.
Given what has come out of the desert in the Chinese interior — much older than the Middle Ages — the future may yet reveal preserved documents of early Christian Asia. :’)
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posted on
07/06/2010 9:44:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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