Bøger af Paulos Milkias

As Ethiopia celebrated its 2,000 years of Christianity and heralded the third millennium starting on September 14, 2007, Paulos Milkias'' Dictionary of Ethiopian Christianity has emerged as an authoritative, comprehensive, and most current resource of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo faith. It provides up-to-date information on the Ethiopian church''s history and heritage. The definitions in the dictionary are deliberately condensed, tight, and linked to lexically-valid headwords related to the Ethiopian experience. The reference text printed in Latin script astride equivalents in Ethiopic Syllabary has over 5,500 entries and several appendices including 70 Biblical quotations regarding Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is a comprehensive treatment of this ancient country's history coupled with an exploration of the nation today. Arranged by broad topics, the book provides an overview of Ethiopia's physical and human geography, its history, its system of government, and the present economic situation. But the book also presents a picture of contemporary society and culture and of the Ethiopian people. It also discusses art, music, and cinema; class; gender; ethnicity; and education, as well as the language, food, and etiquette of the country. Readers will learn such fascinating details as the fact that coffee was first domesticated in Ethiopia more than 10,000 years ago and that modern Ethiopia comprises 77 different ethnic groups with their own distinct languages.