The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews
by Kessler,David F.Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-08-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This third, revised edition comprises the whole of the original volume and is enhanced by the addition of a new preface and afterward which seek to reply to criticisms of the authors argument about the origins of the Falashas, and include some new thinking on the subject. Drawing on tradition and legend to reinforce his argument, the author again traces the source of the community to the Jewish settlements which existed in ancient Egypt (particularly at Elephantine on the Nile) and in the ancient Meroitic Kingdom, in present day Sudan known in the Bible as Cush. The story told in this book is remarkable, heroic and stimulating and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the horn of Africa.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations and maps | |
| list of abbreviations | |
| preface to the second edition | |
| preface to the third edition | |
| Strangers in the midst; legend and history; Judaism | |
| Christianity and Islam; the middle ages; resistance and defeat; missions and missionaries | |
| Jacques Faitlovitch; the struggle for recognition | |
| Postscript to the first edition; afterword | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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