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The Orit is a rare Ethiopian version of the Bible. This Israeli family risked it all to retrieve one.
It is one of just a handful texts in Israel of the Orit, an Ethiopian variant of the Hebrew Bible that predates the advent of that standardized text. It’s a remarkable reminder of how ancient ...
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Tel Aviv University launches academic program to preserve knowledge of Ethiopian Jewish bible
The Orit is the Ethiopian variant of the Hebrew Bible, Rom-Shiloni said. Prior to the compilation of the text known today as the Hebrew Bible, Jewish communities had similar “but certainly not ...
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Global Shabbat explores culture of Ethiopian Jews
The traditions of Ethiopian Jews are the inspiration for an upcoming Shabbat dinner in Midtown Atlanta sponsored by several local Jewish organizations. Known to have faced persecution and forced ...
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Kiryat Malachi social worker will tell of trek from Ethiopia
Adisa Ayaso arrived in Israel in January 1984, but her family’s aliyah wasn’t the typical airplane flight of so many modern-day Jews. Ayaso, now 33, was born in the village of Gedlia Murim in Ethiopia ...
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An Obscure Biblical Figure, a Black Feminist Pop Icon
Written more than 1,000 years after the Hebrew Bible, the Quran is the first text to identify ... Josephus wrote that she ruled over Egypt and Ethiopia. Egypt was under Roman control at the time, a ...