Philological and Content Analysis of Gädlä’äbunä Täklä ’Älfā
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This paper deals with the Gädl of ’äbunä Täklä ’älfā, its philological and content analysis. The content
analysis provides fundamental information concerning the historical, theological, governmental, socio
-cultural events of the epoch. It also provides the philological and content value of the manuscript.
The main objectives of the study are to conduct philological and content analysis on the manuscript
of Gädlä’äbunä Täklä ’älfā and comment on the philological qualities and inconsistencies the
encountered on the Gädl. In addition, the researcher tried to identify some of the effects of the attack
of Ahmad Gragn on the Orthodox Church. The main concern of the research is the Gädl of ’äbunä
Täklä ’älfā, which was found directly from the monastery. The processes included in analyzing the
manuscript is identifying the biography of the Saint, giving philological and content analysis of the
manuscript, briefing the theological values of the Gädl, and distinguishing the inconsistencies in the
Gädl. The method used in the process is, in general, qualitative analysis. From this method,
approximate years of birth and death of the saint from the personages in the Gädl, the
inconsistencies in the Gädl and their corrections and the writer of the Gädl were identified. The study
of the Gädl of this saint is essential in knowing the history of the monastery and the people of Gojjām.
Beside this, it is essential in knowing the suffering the Orthodox Church faced at the time of Ahmad
Gragn and the system of administrationof monasteries.
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The Gädl of ’äbunä Täklä ’älfā