Steven E Kaplan

Biographic Data

ID3609284
NAMESteven E Kaplan
GIVEN NAMESSteven E
FAMILY NAMEKaplan
SIGNATUREKAPLAN S E
AFFILIATIONSHebrew University of Jerusalem
ORCID0000-0003-0174-5429
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • The Hebraic-Biblical Impact on Ethiopian Religions Revisited: With Special Emphasis on the Betä Ǝsra ̓el

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLENortheast African Studies2023

    The question of Hebraic-Biblical elements in Ethiopian religious culture has long been an important topic of discussion in the study of that country's religious history. Nevertheless, it is certainly worthy of reexamination. In this article, I argue that in contrast to the claims that these entered became part of northern Ethiopian culture very early and, in some cases, pre-Christian (Ullendorff) and the counterclaims that they date overwhelmingl…

  • The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land

    Steven E KaplanARTICLEAfrican and Black Diaspora An…2017References: 10

    The Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahedo Church community has had a presence in the Holy Land for at least several hundred years. Throughout most of this period it was composed of a small ecclesiastical corps of monastic clergy who sought to protect the national church’s rights at various holy places in the region of Christianity’s birth. Only in the twentieth century, were these clergy joined by lay people. In this paper, I discuss the way the type of fo…

  • Michael A. Knibb: Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament

    Open AccessSteven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEAethiopica2013

    Review

  • Notes Towards a History of Aṣe Dawit I (1382–1413)

    Open AccessSteven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEAethiopica2013

    Dawit I has received far less attention than either his grandfather ʿAmdä Ṣǝyon I or his son Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob. This comparatively brief article attempts to partially redress the balance. During the more than three decades during which he reigned, Dawit strengthened the religious and political fabric of Ethiopia. By promoting devotion to both the Cross and the Virgin Mary, he provided the Church with two pan-Christian symbols which transcended local …

  • Vital Information at Your Fingertips: The Ethiopian Yellow Pages as a Cultural Document

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEDiaspora A Journal of Transnational…2011

    In the last decade of the twentieth century, Yellow Pages, the well-known business directories that effectively advertise services in fairly standardized formats, have been published by entrepreneurs for various ethnic communities, including Ethiopians. This essay reads the Ethiopian Yellow Pages (EYP), published for the Washington, DC, area, as a cultural document, interpreting it as a text in which issues of identity and community are represent…

  • Dominance and Diversity: Kingship, Ethnicity, and Christianity in Orthodox Ethiopia

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2009

    The purpose of this article is to survey the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church with an emphasis on several features which are of significance for comparison to Syriac Orthodox Christianity. Although it focuses primarily on the period from 1270 during which 'Ethiopian' was a national rather than ethnic identity, it shares several themes with other papers in this volume. After considering the manner in which Christianity reached Ethiopia and…

  • What goes around, comes around: Rotating credit associations among Ethiopian women in Israel

    Hagar Salamon, Steven E Kaplan et al.ARTICLEAfrican Identities2009References: 15

    This article looks at how working-class Ethiopian women, who have migrated to Israel, have sought empowerment and economic control through the establishment of rotating credit associations known as iqqub. In the changing world of Ethiopian Israeli women, iqqub associations and their specific cultural manifestations constitute a highly meaningful experience, whose building-blocks incorporate the financial, the social, the ritualistic, and the symb…

  • Finding the True Cross: The Social-Political Dimensions of the Ethiopian Mäsqäl Festival

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2008Cited by: 3

    In this study of the Ethiopian Orthodox Mäsqäl festival, we have chosen to focus upon the multiple ways in which diverse and even contradictory social messages have been dramatized through this celebration throughout its more than five hundred years of recorded history. While portrayals of imperial power are perhaps the most obvious features of the festival, they were only one aspect of Mäsqäl celebrations. Other issues of rank and hierarchy were…

  • Genealogies and Gene-ideologies: The Legitimacy of the Beta Israel (Falasha)

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLESocial Identities2006Cited by: 2References: 3

    The migration of the vast majority of Beta Israel (Falasha) to Israel has been accompanied by major shifts in the discourse regarding their ‘Jewishness’ and ‘Ethiopian-ness’. This article discusses the adoption of traditions of Danite descent in place of traditions of Solomonic descent and the emergence of genetics as the most important identity marker, replacing reckonings of lineage. The first shift is connected to the migration of the Beta Isr…

  • Tama Galut Etiopiya: The Ethiopian Exile Is Over

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEDiaspora A Journal of Transnational…2005Cited by: 2

    Kaplan points out that although the Ethiopian-Israeli community is by far the most discussed of all Ethiopian expatriate groups, relatively little has been written about Ethiopian Israelis that places them in the larger context of the Ethiopian diaspora, or even treats them as a diaspora community. Ethiopian Israelis are unusual in that their presence in Israel is predicated on a narrative that reverses the one found in other Ethiopian diaspora c…

  • Themes and Methods in the Study Of Conversion in Ethiopia: A Review Essay

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2004

    Although conversion is one of the major themes in the religious and cultural history of Ethiopia, it has yet to benefit from extensive and systematic comparative discussion. For generations, scholars have worked to deepen our understanding of conversion to both Orthodox Christianity and Islam in the Ethiopian highlands. Recent works, moreover, are noteworthy for their efforts to expand our knowledge of both regions and groups hitherto neglected. …

  • The Social and religious functions of the Eucharist in Medieval Ethiopia

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEAnnales d Ethiopie2003

    Kaplan Steven. The Social and religious functions of the Eucharist in Medieval Ethiopia. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 19, année 2003. pp. 7-18

  • "If There Are No Races, How Can Jews Be a "Race

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2003Cited by: 12References: 11

    (2003). If There Are No Races, How Can Jews Be a 'Race'? Journal of Modern Jewish Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 79-96

  • Black and White, Blue and White and Beyond the Pale: Ethiopian Jews and the Discourse of Colour in Israel

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEJewish Culture and History2002Cited by: 4References: 9

    This article explores aspects of racial discourse employed in discussing Ethiopian Jews in Israel. It assumes that racial classifications are social constructions which themselves must be analysed and explained. Although Ethiopian immigrants did not consider themselves to be ‘black’ in Ethiopia, they are usually described as such in Israel. This serves not only to associate them with other ‘black’ groups in the African diaspora, but also to empha…

  • Seeing Is Believing: The Power of Visual Culture in the Religious World of Aşe Zär'a Ya'eqob of Ethiopia (1434-1468)

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2002Cited by: 1

    The prevailing image of Zär'a Ya'eqob has tended to emphasize the intellectual at the expense of the experiential and political power at the expense of religious power. It is to these relatively neglected aspects of religious life that this article is devoted. It is our purpose here to emphasize the importance of the Cross, the image of the Virgin, the construction of churches and other visual aspects of religious life in Zär'a Ya'eqob's Ethiopia…

  • The effects of predictive ability information, locus of control, and decision maker involvement on decision aid reliance

    Open AccessSteven E Kaplan, J Hal Reneau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2001References: 2

    This study examines several factors that influence decision makers' willingness to rely on mechanical decision aids. The first experiment examined the effects of predictive ability information and locus of control on decision aid reliance. The results indicate that decision makers were more likely to rely on a decision aid when its predictive validity was not disclosed. Further, decision makers with an external locus of control relied more on the…

  • Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity

    Susan Hawley, Steven E Kaplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1998

    For over five hundred years, since the great age of exploration, Western Christians have visited, traded with, conquered and colonized large parts of the non-Western world. In virtually every case this contact has been accompanied by an attempt to spread Christianity. This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary Christianity has been shaped and transformed through contact with the peoples of Peru, Mexico, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, …

  • The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven Kaplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1998

    For anyone interested in this remarkable people, Kesslers book is surely the most readable and entertaining guide. Tudor Parfitt, Jewish Chronicle International Journal of African Historical Studies A useful and cool-headed account of the external involvement of organizations and governments in the Falasha issue since 1941

  • Seen but Not Heard: Children and Childhood in Medieval Ethiopian Hagiographies

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven KaplanARTICLEThe International Journal of…1997

    Despite the existence of a considerable body of scholarly literature concerning many aspects of Ethiopian culture, social history remains a relatively neglected field. With a few notable exceptions, virtually all studies have focused upon the political, ecclesiatical, and, to a lesser extent, economic spheres. While the activities of kings, conquerers, and church leaders have been extensively chronicled, the most elementary facts concerning the b…

  • In the Shadow of Conquest: Islam in Colonial Northeast Africa

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven Kaplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1997Cited by: 8

  • Created in their Own Image: A Comment on Beta Israël Figurines

    Open AccessSteven E Kaplan, Steven Kaplan et al.ARTICLECahiers d études africaines1996References: 1

    This paper examines the statuettes produced both in Ethiopia and in Israel by the Beta Israel (Falasha). Previous studies of these statuettes have focussed around the issues of antiquity and authenticity. Those who have erroneously accepted the antiquity of the statuettes have ignored the issue of relations between the Falasha and external forces, and seen these works as a valuable due concerning their past. Those who have recognized that such st…

  • Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition

    Weil, Shalva Weil et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1995

  • The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920

    Taddesse Tamrat, James Quirin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1994

  • The Mariology of Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob of Ethiopia: Texts and Translations

    Steven E Kaplan, Steven Kaplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1994

  • Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition

    James Quirin, Ruth Westheimer et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1994Cited by: 1