A Monastic Genealogy for Hoharwa Monastery – A Unique Piece of Betä Ǝsraʾel Historiography
Fol. 4r: Beginning of Genesis 1; Jerusalem - The National Library of Israel, Ms.Or. 87 Hidden under the simple description of “Old...
Searching for Traces of Jews in Medieval Armenia: A Field Trip to the Jewish Cemetery of Yeghegis
The Jewish cemetery at the outskirts of the village of Yeghegis (Ełegis) in the Region of Vayots’ Dzor (Vayoc‘ Jor), Armenia – in the...
Semien Menata – Site of the Last Central Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Monastery
On October 2017, members of the JewsEast research team embarked on a 3-week archaeological survey in the Semien Mountains, the highest...
A Disputation in Ḥoms between Abū Isḥāq the Christian and the Jewish debater from Damascus
The long-standing Christian tradition of casting refutations of Judaism in the form of Jewish-Christian disputations was continued by...
Two Stories about Jews in Armenian: Part 2
This article is the long-promised Part 2 of an entry presented some months ago, dedicated to two sources about Jews preserved in...
Two Stories about Jews in Armenian: Part 1
Jews in Armenia? What the Project Aims to Do Traces of Jewish communities in historical Armenia during the Middle Ages are difficult to...
Kristucaritram, ‘The Story of Christ’
The manuscript library in Tübingen is a treasure grove for researchers. Besides manuscripts related with German and European history and...
The Bete Israel monastery of Amba Gualit
In Ethiopia, the way we typically perceive Jews and Christians is challenged: Ethiopian Orthodox Christians circumcise their sons on the...