Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and PrinciplesThe Red Sea Press, 1997 - 176 стор. Ayele Bekerie argues that Ethiopic is a component of the African knowledge systems and one of the major contributions made by Africans to world history and cultures. The author further elaborates that Ethiopic is a knowledge system which is brilliantly organized to represent philosophical features, such as ideography, mnemonics, syllography, astronomy, numerology and grammatology. Ethiopic is not only a cultural agency, but also a foundation to a great literary tradition in Ethiopia, which, for instance, has made a critical contribution to the history of Christianity by organically preserving The Book of Henok, widely believed to be a precursor of Christianity. In a sharp departure from the established view of most Ethiopianists of the old school, Ayele Bekerie contends that the Ethiopic writing system is much older than it has been previously thought, tracing back its origins to as far back as 2,000 B.C.E. This study also explores the dynamic linkages between the Ethiopic and Egyptian writing systems, suggesting the possible relationship between all African writing systems of the Nile Valley. |
Зміст
Sabaeans ProtoEthiopic and Ethiopic Syllographs | 2 |
Text in Ethiopic | 8 |
An Overview of the Ethiopic Writing System | 11 |
The Persistent Interjection of the Semitic Paradigm | 18 |
Some General Analyses and Discussion | 25 |
Asking Basic Questions | 34 |
The Mindset Responsible for the External Paradigm | 42 |
The Awakening The Challenge and the Real History | 48 |
The Number Values of the Ethiopic Writing System | 79 |
Fidäl and Äsräs Yänésäw | 82 |
Analysis of the System | 92 |
The Ethiopic Writing System and Locational Theory | 98 |
Some Names and Meaning of the Syllographs | 100 |
THE BOOK OF HÉNOK AND AFRICAN | 105 |
71 | 114 |
Hénokian Fragments in Aramaic and Greek Languages | 115 |
General Historical Parallels Between | 53 |
THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES | 61 |
The Organic Link Between | 70 |
108 | 124 |
163 | |
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Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and Principles Ayele Bekerie Перегляд фрагмента - 1997 |
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Addis Ababa Adulis aesthetics Afrocentric Aksum Aksumite alphabet Amharic Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Ancient Ethiopian Arabian peninsula Aramaic Art and Science Äsräs Axum B'al birana Book of Enoch Book of Hénok century Church classical column cultural Egyptian hieroglyphics Enoch epic epicology Ethiopian civilization Ethiopian history Ethiopian philosophy Ethiopian plateau Ethiopian scholars Ethiopian Studies Ethiopic Book Ethiopic language Ethiopic syllographs Ethiopic system Ethiopic writing system Eurocentric European external paradigm fact Fidäl Ge'ez graphs Greek Habashat hegemonic History of Africa Ibid identified ideographic inscriptions invention Keto Kibrä Nägäst Knibb knowledge systems language linguistic literary major manuscripts means Mokhtar Munro-Hay Nile number values origin Oromo language Pankhurst pictographic Proto-Ethiopic Qiné Red Sea regarding Sabaean script Se'en Se'nä Semitic significant South Arabian South Arabian paradigm stelae Sylvia Pankhurst symbols Täwahido term tion total number translation Ullendorff UNESCO University Press words wrote Yänésäw York Zära Yaqob
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