"Falasha" Religion: Ancient Judaism or Evolving Ethiopian Tradition?

Kaplan, Steven; Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

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“…12 In it, she argues for a strong dependency of the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel liturgical tradition on the Ethiopian Christian tradition and suggests that the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel originated as a dissident group within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church around the fourteenth century. Her book was received with enthusiasm by many (Kaplan 1988(Kaplan , 1989Sharvit 1988;Mooresfield 1989;Coplan 1990;Nasreddin-Longo 1991), but also received criticism (Weil 1989). 13 The authors behind the CD box take a critical stance towards Shelemay's work.…”

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“…13 The authors behind the CD box take a critical stance towards Shelemay's work. Building on a statement by Kaplan (1987) remarking that "[w]ith the possible exception of their prayers […], virtually the entire corpus of Beta Israel literature is of Christian origin," 14 they write: Interested in the musical dimension of the liturgy but also drawing on textual evi- [12] 12…”

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“…The improved knowledge of literary works of the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel, such as the Tǝʾzāza sanbat, "The Commandments of the Sabbath," has also contributed to this development (see, for example, Kaplan 1987). 13…”

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Songs That Travel: A Review Article of the CD box The Liturgy of Beta Israel

Dege-Müller¹,

Karlsson²

2021

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In 1986, a Franco-Israeli team of scholars set out to document the liturgy of the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel, a group of Ethiopian Jews which at the time was in the process of making aliyah under dramatic circumstances. The scholars gathered a group of priests in Israel and produced an impressive corpus of recordings, covering important parts of the liturgical tradition. Over the past decades, the team has been publishing their results in a number of articles and monographs, and in 2019 presented a selection of recordings in the form of a CD box. The box contains three CDs plus a bilingual booklet with information about the liturgical tradition of the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel: their music, prayers, and ritual practices. In this review article, the research results presented in the booklet are evaluated, with special attention paid to the effects that migration has had on the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel liturgical tradition.

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Songs That Travel: A Review Article of the CD box The Liturgy of Beta Israel

Dege-Müller¹,

Karlsson²

2021

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“…Again the spectre of migrationism is seen, another promised land and chosen peoples' myth, to the extent that in recent years an Israelifunded project has been taking genetic samples from highland populations to test for the distinctive Jewish Kohanim genetic marker in the hope of identifying the highland Ethiopians as being one of the lost tribes of Israel. Other scholars, however, have seen Falasha Judaism as a survival of a common, pre-Christian Semitic religion of the highlands, akin to the peculiar brand of pagan/Hebraic religion of the Qemant peoples of the central highlands (Kaplan 1994), and whose syncretic motifs are shared with some aspects of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian socio-cultural behaviour (e.g. food prohibitions).…”

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The Persistence of Memory: Nationalism, Identity and the Represented Past. The Ethiopian Experience in a Global Context

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Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism

Klawans

2000

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Much has been written about ritual impurity in ancient Judaism, but the question of how the ancient Jews understood the relationship between defilement and sin has largely been ignored. This book offers a systematic exploration of the topic. The book takes the results of current research on the Hebrew Bible and applies them to early Jewish and Christian groups. The Bible, it shows, considers the moral impurity generated by sin to be entirely distinct from (but no less real than) the ritual impurity generated by bodily function such as menstruation. The book then traces the relationship between ritual and moral impurity from early Jewish sects through the New Testament and the theology of Saint Paul, and shows how Christian theology arrived at the point where the need for ritual purity was entirely rejected.

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"Falasha" Religion: Ancient Judaism or Evolving Ethiopian Tradition?

Cited by 15 publications

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Songs That Travel: A Review Article of the CD box The Liturgy of Beta Israel

Songs That Travel: A Review Article of the CD box The Liturgy of Beta Israel

The Persistence of Memory: Nationalism, Identity and the Represented Past. The Ethiopian Experience in a Global Context

Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism

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