The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews

by Kessler,David F.

• ISBN13: 9780714641706
• ISBN10: 0714641707
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136304552
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781136304552
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

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

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