Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History

Festschrift for Getatchew Haile

edited by Adam Carter McCollum

Book cover: Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History

Extent: 619 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies

Series: Aethiopistische Forschungen

Series volume number: 83

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2017)

ISBN: 9783447108485

Price: $164.00

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This volume in appreciation of Getatchew Haile includes articles by an international community of scholars. The history, literature, and languages of Ethiopia from Late Antiquity to the present form the focal points of this collection, which will be of interest to scholars and students of the history and literature of Christianity, Semitic languages, and Ethiopia in general.


This volume in appreciation of Getatchew Haile includes twenty-six articles by an international community of scholars, with papers divided into sections on history and culture, texts and manuscripts, and languages. The history, literature, and languages of Ethiopia from Late Antiquity to the present form the focal points of this collection, which will be of interest to scholars and students of the history and literature of Christianity, Semitic languages (especially, but not exclusively, Ethio-Semitic), and Ethiopia in general. A selected bibliography of Getatchew Haile’s writings concludes the book.

  • Edited by Adam Carter McCollum