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Biographical information about Zera Yacob can be found in his Treatise (very interesting to read!!!). His philosophy is similar to the philosophy of enlightenment. Interesting to read since the philosophical thoughts are embedded into his life story, so one can almost watch the emergence of philosophical thinking. This man invented philosophy on his own. Unfortunately, the philosophical tradition started by him seems to have vanished after the death of his student Walda Heywat. What would have happened, had they had the printing press? A must read for any introductory course to philosophy. Nannus 19:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC) I am going to add some more of the biographical details. Nannus 19:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
It's a forgery by a 19th century Roman Catholic missionary, vide Enrico Cerulli, La letteratura etiopica. 85.178.63.157 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC).
It was argued by Carlo Conti Rossini and Eugen Mittwoch that the work was a forgery by an Italian priest, Giusto d'Urbino. That was in the 1920s and 1930s, and my impression is that scholarly interest pretty much dried up at that point. More recently, though, Claude Sumner argued in the 1970s, on stylistic and other grounds, that it was not a forgery after all (or at least that the person alleged to have forged it could not have done so). But his stuff seems to be pretty obscure, and I'm not sure if there's been any back-and-forth since then. There are a few works out though operating on the assumption that Sumner is correct. Sumner's argument (and references to other stuff) is contained in Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. II: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: Text and Authorship, Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press, 1976. I have not investigated it terribly closely, though I'm at present satisfied by it. Here is a brief summary from Classical Ethiopian Philosophy (1985). bhritchie ( talk) 18:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Biographical information about Zera Yacob can be found in his Treatise (very interesting to read!!!). His philosophy is similar to the philosophy of enlightenment. Interesting to read since the philosophical thoughts are embedded into his life story, so one can almost watch the emergence of philosophical thinking. This man invented philosophy on his own. Unfortunately, the philosophical tradition started by him seems to have vanished after the death of his student Walda Heywat. What would have happened, had they had the printing press? A must read for any introductory course to philosophy. Nannus 19:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC) I am going to add some more of the biographical details. Nannus 19:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
It's a forgery by a 19th century Roman Catholic missionary, vide Enrico Cerulli, La letteratura etiopica. 85.178.63.157 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC).
It was argued by Carlo Conti Rossini and Eugen Mittwoch that the work was a forgery by an Italian priest, Giusto d'Urbino. That was in the 1920s and 1930s, and my impression is that scholarly interest pretty much dried up at that point. More recently, though, Claude Sumner argued in the 1970s, on stylistic and other grounds, that it was not a forgery after all (or at least that the person alleged to have forged it could not have done so). But his stuff seems to be pretty obscure, and I'm not sure if there's been any back-and-forth since then. There are a few works out though operating on the assumption that Sumner is correct. Sumner's argument (and references to other stuff) is contained in Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. II: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: Text and Authorship, Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press, 1976. I have not investigated it terribly closely, though I'm at present satisfied by it. Here is a brief summary from Classical Ethiopian Philosophy (1985). bhritchie ( talk) 18:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)