We welcome you to explore this research environment dedicated to the study of the Textual History of the
Ethiopic Old Testament.
This is a research environment dedicated to the study of the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament.
It is a data portal, a digital humanities laboratory, a space for reports and data visualizations, with
tutorials on method, and resources for dissertations. All of it is through the lens of the digital
humanities – turning images into texts, texts into numbers, and numbers into stories.
Fall 2024 Meetings of the Launch of the THEOT Website
Meeting #1 – Addis Ababa University. Sept 19, 2024, 3pm Addis time, Hosted by Mersha Alehegne. In Amharic. Respondents: 1) Derib Ado Jekale (managing Editor of the Ethiopian Journal of Languages and Literature); 2) Dr. Amare Mesfin (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa); and 3) Assoc. Prof. Mersha Alehegne, Philology Department.
Meeting #2 – Ethiopian Studies in North America (ESNA) group led by Samantha Kelly, Steven Kaplan, and Michael Gervers, on Sept 27, 2024. Respondents: 1) Steven Kaplan (professor of African Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem); and 2) Todd Hannaken (Theology Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Texas, director of the Jubilees Palimpsest Project, https://palimpsest.stmarytx.edu/).
Meeting #3 – meeting with the faculty of Sankt Ignatios (Theological) College (https://www.sanktignatios.org/college/) on October 22, 2024. Respondents: 1) Calum Samuelson, faculty member; and 2) Miriam Hjalm, Dean.
Meeting #4 – the departmental Forschungskolloquium of the Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik on Oct 30, 2024, hosted by Dr. Denis Nosnitsin. Respondents, Prof Dalit Rom-Shiloni (Tel Aviv University) and Prof Nesina Grütter & Matthias Müller, PhD (both of the Institut Dominique Barthélemy Département d’études bibliques at Université de Fribourg).
