The 'Death Of Moses' in the Literature of the Falashas

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ID2823862
AuthorsEdward Ullendorff (corresponding author)
Year1961
Volume24
Issue3
Pages419-443
Publication date1961-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00092168
OpenAlexW2134836973
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

Fora long time now the Falashas have, with questionable justification, been dubbed the 'Jews of Abyssinia'. A good deal of legendary information about the Falashas appears already in such medieval writings asSefer Eldadand in an account given by Benjamin of Tudela who gathered some news on the Falashas while on his way from the Yemen to Egypt. The great seventeenth-century scholar Job Ludolf included some notes and questions in his monumental work on Ethiopian history-based, to a large extent, on information supplied by Abba Gregory who thought that the Falashasdialecto Talmudica corrupta inter se utuntur(no doubt a reference to their Agaw vernacular which Gregory did not understand). Thus misled, Ludolf is understandably curious to knowquando vel qua occasione Judaei isti primum in Aethiopiam venerint? Karraeorumne vel aliorum Judaeorum sectae sint addicti?James Bruce of Kinnaird provides a fairly detailed, though not necessarily accurate, picture of Falasha life which became the stimulus of subsequent interest in this peculiar form of 'Judaism

Art · Judaism · Literature · Theology · Vernacular · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy

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