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Biological Thoughts as they are Enlightened in the Ethiopian Commentary Tradition: Annotation, Translations and Commentary
(Addis Ababa Universiy, 2013-04) Tadese Abebe, Rodas; Alehegne, Dr. Mersha
The andamta corpus of Amharic commen tary on Ge'ez biblical and patristic texts derives its n ame from the repeated use of 'andam', meaning 'and (there is) one (who says)', to introduce d ifferent interpretations. The corpus is in four parts: Old Testament, New Testament, The Books of the Scholars and the books of Monks . It represents a long running Ethiopian oral tradition, possibly originating from Aksumite Kingdom between the advent of Christianity, and the ninth century, now written down and recently partly published, a lthough important commentaries remain unpublished. Althou gh the primary goal of Andamta are to spiritual ideas but also Andamta as a hot bed for many Sciences such as h istorical, philological, biological and medical laws a re raised h ere and there as it a ttempts to explain their relations to human's lives. As a result of there are also many in sights in andamta to biological science like human biology, plant biology, and a nimal biology. Therefore, the study will discuss the above-mentioned points in detail especia lly in regard with the biological ideas from the andamta.