Between heretics and Jews

  • The Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews, have suffered from a negative or complete misrepresentation in the written and oral sources of pre-modern Ethiopia. The term “Jew” was deliberately chosen to stigmatize heretic groups, or any other group deviating from the normative church doctrine. Often no difference was made between Jewish groups or heretic Christians; they were marginalized and persecuted in the harshest way. The article illustrates how Jews are featured in the Ethiopian sources, the apparent patterns in this usage, and the polemic language chosen to describe these people.

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Author:Sophia Dege-MüllerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-57283
DOI:https://doi.org/10.13154/er.v6.2018.247-308
Parent Title (English):Entangled Religions : Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Subtitle (German):Inventing Jewish identities in Ethiopia
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2018/06/12
Tag:JEWSEAST, Project ID: 647467; anti-Jewish polemics
Ethiopian Christianity; Ethiopian Jews; oral traditions and legends
Volume:2018
Issue:6
First Page:247
Last Page:308
Note:
JEWSEAST, Project ID: 647467, Gefördert unter: H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
Relation (DC):info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647467
OpenAIRE:OpenAIRE
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International