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Many historians -- including Richard Pankhurst, a British-born scholar who has lived in Ethiopia for almost 50 years -- date the Kebra Negast manuscript to the 14th century A.D. It was written, they say, to validate the claim by Menelik's descendants that their right to rule was God-given, based on an unbroken succession from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. But the Ethiopian faithful say the chronicles were copied from a fourth-century Coptic manuscript that was, in turn, based on a far earlier account... "The ark came here from Aksum for safekeeping from enemies well before Jesus was born because our people followed the Jewish religion then," he said. "But when King Ezana ruled in Aksum 1,600 years ago, he took the ark back to Aksum." Ezana's kingdom extended across the Red Sea into the Arabian peninsula; he converted to Christianity around A.D. 330 and became hugely influential in spreading the faith.
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14 posted on 11/27/2007 12:10:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, November 27, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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15 posted on 11/27/2007 12:12:08 PM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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16 posted on 11/27/2007 12:12:46 PM PST by Monkey Face (If we are what we eat, I'm cheap, fast and easy.)
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If I ever meet an Ethiopian, I’ll definitely Axum about this...


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