150 Years after Dillmann’s Lexicon
Perspectives and Challenges of Ge'ez Studies
edited by Alessandro Bausi with assistance from Eugenia Sokolinski
This volume casts a look on the past, present, and future of Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic) philological and linguistic studies. The essays define more precisely which are the challenges posed by manuscripts, text editions, and epigraphic evidence emerged since 1865, with regard to Ge’ez language, orthography, lexicon and lexicography as well as digital humanities and corpus linguistics.
The volume contains eleven essays which cast a look on the past, present, and future of Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic) philological and linguistic studies on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the achievement of the Lexicon linguae Aethiopicae by August Dillmann, published in 1865. Most of the essays were presented at a conference convened by the ERC-project TraCES at the University of Hamburg in November 2015. On the one hand, they focus on the significance and importance of the Lexicon and of its author who was one of the greatest orientalists of the nineteenth century. Dillmann’s Lexicon has marked in-depth the development of Ethiopian and oriental studies. It still remains an indispensable tool for the analysis of Ge’ez style and phraseology, even though it has been surpassed by Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of Ge’ez (1987), with respect to etymology and number of entries. On the other hand, the essays define more precisely which are (besides the obvious updating) the challenges posed by manuscripts, text editions, and epigraphic evidence emerged since 1865, with regard to Ge’ez language, orthography, lexicon and lexicography as well as digital humanities and corpus linguistics. The contributors are Maria Bulakh, Wolfgang Dickhut, Andreas Ellwardt, Serge A. Frantsouzoff, Martin Heide, Susanne Hummel, Manfred Kropp, Eugenia Sokolinski, Agostino Soldati, Cristina Vertan, Stefan Weninger, and Alessandro Bausi, who is also the editor of the volume.
- Edited by Alessandro Bausi
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Veneration of Saints in Christian Ethiopia
Proceedings of the International Workshop Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Literary Sources and Veneration, Hamburg, April 28-29, 2012
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Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies
Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa. Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014
Volume 4
Ecclesiastic Landscape of North Ethiopia
Proceedings of the International Workshop, Ecclesiastic Landscape of North Ethiopia: History, Change and Cultural Heritage Hamburg, July 15-16, 2011
Volume 2
Studies on the Ethiopic Old Testament
Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Jeremiah Cycle
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