Gädlä FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos: Critical Edition with Annotated Translation
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2023-04-18
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Addis Ababa University
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This study is a critical edition and annotated translation work on Gädlä FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos, a text which records the life, deeds and struggles of a martyr and monastic figure who lived in the 17th c. during the reign of king Susənyos. St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos is regarded as the defender of Orthodox Christianity and venerated as a great martyr, a monastic and a prominent saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahədo Church. She had lived in three ways of life, which is quite unusual and rare: as a married woman, a martyr, and an abbess of a monastery. The Gädl narrates her amazing life from conception to her last breath including her suffering and struggle against king Susənyos and contains her miracles, covenant and mälkƏ’ The Gädl has not been critically studied and catalogued so far. The researcher has made a careful collation of six manuscripts found from three monasteries for the preparation of this edition. Out of the three, two of the monasteries were established by St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos. The physical and content descriptions of all the available MSS are demonstrated, including their quire structures illustrated in graphics. The description shows the right order of all folios, the structure of the quires, how they are assembled, how many folios are in each quire and which folios are absent. The edition comprises of the critical apparatus at the foot of each page to indicate the variant readings of the manuscripts, annotated English translation of the Gädl with mälkƏ’, Biblical allusions, linguistic, literary, textual analysis and the genealogical tree or stemma codicum. The dissertation is organized in eight chapters and 484 pages. The text has great significance and value when placed in the historical, social, cultural, philological, and theological contexts of 17th c. Ethiopia,
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Martyr and Monastic, Gädlä FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos