The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews

The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews
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Publisher : Tsehai Publishers
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 1599070464
ISBN-13 : 9781599070469
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Book Synopsis The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews by : James Quirin

Download or read book The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews written by James Quirin and published by Tsehai Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews is the most thorough scholarly study of Beta Israel history within Ethiopia yet written. It traces the development of the Ethiopian Jews from their controversial origins to the beginning of the twentieth century. The author places their evolution firmly within the Ethiopian social, ethnic, religious, political and historical context, using analytical tools such as caste, class and ethnicity. Quirin shows how the Ethiopian Jews struggled to maintain their identity in the face of political, military, economic and religious external pressures from the Ethiopian state and the dominant Christian society from the fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries. He then analyzes their loss of political independence and partial assimilation into the society and state of the Gondar dynasty during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They faced new challenges and influences from European Protestant missionaries and western Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Quirin employs an exhaustive use of Ethiopian and European written sources, as well as an original and careful use of internal oral traditions obtained in interviews with scores of Beta Israel and other informants.


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