Important New Book on Ethiopian Churches
THE DAILY ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIA - An important new book by David Phillipson has been published which demystifies the history of Ethiopia’s Ancient Christian Churches and provides research and commentary which is overdue about a significant period of architectural history in Ancient Christian culture which until now has not been fully justified by any author. Phillipson’s Ancient Churches of Ethiopia
, a work of scholarship which is also a beautifully crafted "coffee-table book", covers an important period of Ethiopian history: the millennium from the Fourth Century AD, when the Aksumites first accepted Christianity as their state religion, to the Fourteenth Century, by which time a dynasty claiming descent from the biblical King Solomon and the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba was firmly in control in Shawa to the south. [link]
, a work of scholarship which is also a beautifully crafted "coffee-table book", covers an important period of Ethiopian history: the millennium from the Fourth Century AD, when the Aksumites first accepted Christianity as their state religion, to the Fourteenth Century, by which time a dynasty claiming descent from the biblical King Solomon and the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba was firmly in control in Shawa to the south. [link]
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