Between Heretics and Jews: Inventing Jewish Identities in Ethiopia

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 diff...

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Published in:	Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Main Author:	Sophia Dege-Müller
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	CERES / KHK Bochum 2018-04-01
Subjects:	Ethiopian Jews Ethiopian Christianity oral traditions and legends anti-Jewish polemics
Online Access:	https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/865