Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Toronto's Ge'ez program fundraising nears goal

ETHIOPIC WATCH: Ethiopic Studies Endowment at University of Toronto Nears Goal of Raising $500k (Tadias Magazine). If they reach the targeted amount, the Ge'ez program will be made permanent. They are currently not far off, at $440,000.

For background on the fundraising and the program, see here, here, and here.

Among the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, the Book of 1 Enoch (composed in Aramaic and perhaps Hebrew) and the Book of Jubilees (composed in Hebrew) survive complete only in Ge'ez translations.

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