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Books / Bücher

  • Der Kampf der Engel im Aksimaros. Ein äthiopischer Schöpfungsmythos. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2025 (Aethiopistische Forschungen 90).
  • (editor with J. Gnisci, S. Dege-Müller, J. Karlsson, and V. Pisani), Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia. Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers, Berlin: De Gryuter 2025
  • (editor with A. Meckelburg, S. Dege-Müller, and D. Bustorf), Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2018 (Supplement to Aethiopica - International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 7).

Articles / Artikel

  • with B. Kribus, „Investigating the Material Culture of Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) Monasticism: The Case of the Betä Ǝsraʾel Monastery of Qolqwaločč (Šowada) in the Sǝmen Mountains,“ in Kathryn A. Bard, Andrea Manzo, Luisa Sernicola, Federica Sulas and Chiara Zazzaro, eds, Volume in Memory of Rodolfo Fattovich (Oxford: Archaeopress). Forthcoming.
  • „The Life of Susanna in Light of the Betä Ǝsraʾel Manuscript Tradition“, in: P. Forness, S. Paulau (eds), Interreligious Appropriations in the Global History of Christianity, Mohr Siebeck. Forthcoming.
  • “The Maqdǝma wangel (Introduction to the Gospels, CAe 4872): tracing its Arabic Vorlage and translation history”, in: M. Ambu, S. Dorso, J. Loiseau (eds), Ethiopians Abroad in the Middle Ages, Rome, Ecole française de Rome, coll., Rom: Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome. Forthcoming.
  • with M. Monier: “The Journey of ibn al–ʿAssāl’s Introduction to the Four Holy Gospels and the Ten Canons from Cairo to Ethiopia: New Codicological Evidence”, Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 75 (2025).
  • „August Haffners äthiopistische Arbeiten,“ Forum Hall in Tirol. Neues zur Geschichte der Stadt 5 (2025), 328–341.
  • “The Ethiopian Royal Family as Commissioners of Manuscripts and the Artistic School of the “Sad Eyes””, in: J. Gnisci, S. Dege-Müller, J. Karlsson, and V. Pisani (eds), Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia. Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers, De Gryuter 2025, 323–356.
  • with B. Kribus. “Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) – Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Səmen Mountains of Northern Ethiopia: A View from the Betä Ǝsraʾel Religious Center of Sǝmen Mənaṭa,” in: Material Encounters between Jews and Christians: From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia, edited by Bar Kribus, Zara Pogossian and Alexandra Cuffel. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 191–211.
  • „Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs”, Aethiopica 27 (2024), 349–352.
  • “Workshop on Beta Israel Scriptures, Israel, 19–23 May 2024”, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 8, 218–220.
  • with J. Karlsson, and J. Gnisci, „A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in British Public Collections“, Aethiopica 26, 2023, 159-225.
  • with J. Gnisci, and V. Pisani, „A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections,“ Aethiopica 25 (2022), 59-98.
  • with B. Kribus, „St. Yared in the Sǝmen Mountains of northern Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Orthodox and Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) religious sites“, Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire.
  • with B. Kribus, „The Veneration of St. Yared – A Multireligious Landscape Shared by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews)“, in Marian Burchardt und Maria Chiara Giorda, Hrsg., Geographies of Encounter: The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 255-280.
  • „The Monastic Genealogy of Hoḫwärwa Monastery: A Unique Witness of Betä Ǝsraʾel Historiography“, Aethiopica, 23 (2020), 57–80.
  • with J. Karlsson, „Songs That Travel: A Review Article of the CD Box The Liturgy of Beta Israel“, Entangled Religions, 11/1 (2020), 1–32.
  • „The Manuscript Tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews): Form and Content. A Preliminary Analysis“, COMSt Bulletin, 6/1 (2020), 5–40.
  • “Between Heretics and Jews: Inventing Jewish Identities in Ethiopia”, in: Ophira Gamliel (ed.), Eastern Jews and Christians in Interaction and Exchange in the Islamic World and Beyond, as a volume of Entangled Religions 6, 247–308.
  • ““Remapping Paradise”: Manuscript evidences of Ethiopian Cosmological Models and of Visualizations of the Paradisiacal Garden”, in Eloi Ficquet, Ahmed Hassen and Thomas Osmond, eds, Movements in Ethiopia, Ethiopia in Movement. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa – Paris 2016, Vol. 1, 103–116.
  • “Ms. Cerulli 165 in the Light of the Aksimaros’ Manuscript Tradition”, in Rafał Zarzeczny, ed., AETHIOPIA FORTITUDO EJUS. Studi in onore di Monsignor Osvaldo Raineri in occasione del suo 80˚ compleanno, Roma 2015 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 298), 163–180.
  • „The Ethiopian Psalter Manuscripts - Scribal Practices and Text Arrangement”, in Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori and Denis Nosnitsin, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies, Wiesbaden 2015 (Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014), 59–74, Tafeln: 369–374.
  • “Die Königin von Saba. Das äthiopische Nationalepos”, in: Welt und Umwelt der Bibel, 3, 2015, 36–41.
  • “Weder in Äthiopien noch in Israel zu Hause“, in: Welt und Umwelt der Bibel, 3, 2015, 54–57.
  • The Ethiopian Psalter: An Introduction to its Codicological Tradition“, The Anglo-Ethiopian Society News File, 2014/Winter (2014), 16–22.

Reviews / Rezensionen

  • Review of “Tom Boylston, The Stranger at the Feast Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018; pp. ix + 181. $17.52 paper, free ebook,” Northeast African Studies, 19/2 (2019), 119–123.
  • Review of W. Belcher and M. Kleiner, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros, Journal of African History 58, 2, 346–347.
  • Review of “D. McEwan, The Story of Däräsge Maryam. The history, buildings and treasures of a church compound with a painted church in the Semen Mountains”, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 110, 4-5 (Okt. 2015), 416–19.
  • Review of „K.J. Lundström and Ezra Gebremedhin, Kenisha: The Roots and Development of The Evangelical Church of Eritrea 1866-1935, Uppsala 2011“, Aethiopica 15, 2012, 283–87.
  • Review of „S. Bombeck, Die Geschichte der heiligen Maria in einer alten äthiopischen Handschrift, Dortmund 2010,“ Aethiopica 14, 2011, 289–71.

Encyclopaedia Entries

  • 2014 “Mäftǝḥe Śǝray.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, vol. V, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, 407a–408a.
  • “Sǝddät: Mäṣḥafä Sǝddät.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, vol. V, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, 509b–510a.
  • “Wäldä Tǝnsaʾe.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, vol. V, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, 551a.
  • “Yoḥannǝs II.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, vol. V, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, 70b–71b.
  • “Zämänä Mäsafǝnt.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Siegbert Uhlig, vol. V, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, 122b–129a.
  • 2010 with Alemayehu Birru Worku, “Täsämma Asbärom.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, 864ab.
  • “Sarbakusa.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 539a–540b.
  • “Sǝbǝstyanos.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 587a–587b. “Tewoflos.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 937b–938a.
  • “Wänd Bäwäsän.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 1128b–1129b. “Wäsän Sägäd.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 1153b–1154a.
  • with Wolbert Smidt. “Ṭälsäm.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz, 2010, pp. 850a–852b.
  • with Siegbert Uhlig. “Potken, Johannes.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 191b–192b.
  • “Schlichting, Christoph.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, p. 575ab.
  • with Peter Unseth. “Täwäldä Mädḫǝn Gäbrä Mädḫǝn.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 877a–878a.
  • with Meckelburg, Alexander. “Wädaǧǧo Gobäna.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 1066a–1067a.
  • with Shiferaw Bekele. “Revolution of 1974.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi, vol. IV, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 384a–386b.
  • 2007 “Mätäkko.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, vol. III, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, pp. 861b–862a.
  • “Nägaśi Krǝstos.” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, vol. III, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, pp. 1110b–1111b.

Other publications

  • „Wie die Welt in sechs Tagen entstand. Eine Schöpfungsgeshichte aus dem Judentum/Christentum/Islam“, in: K. Rezania, J. Stander-Dulisch, and F. Burstyn (eds), Wie die Sterne an den Himmel kamen. Elf Geschichten aus der Zeit unserer Vorfahren, Leipzig: Edition Hamouda (2021), 59–66.
  • „Judentum“, in: C. Sefrin, Äthiopien: Unterwegs im Ältesten Kulturland Afrikas, Berlin: Trescher Verlag (2019), 69–74.
  • „Zagwe Dynastie“, in: C. Sefrin, Äthiopien: Unterwegs im Ältesten Kulturland Afrikas, Berlin: Trescher Verlag (2019), 276–278.


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