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In 1962, a new Amharic translation from Ge'ez was printed, again with the patronage of the Emperor. The preface by Emperor Haile Selassie I is dated "1955" (), and the 31st year of his reign (i.e. AD 1962 in the Gregorian Calendar), [10] and states that it was translated by the Bible Committee he convened between AD 1947 and 1952, "realizing that there ought to be a revision from the original ...
It is during this period that Amharic started to emerge as a written language. One of the most important people of this era is Ethiopian priest and lexicographer, Abba Gorgoryos (1595–1658). [6] Gorgoryos along with his colleague and friend Hiob Ludolf co-authored the earliest grammar book of the Amharic language and also an Amharic-Latin ...
The Wise Mind of Emperor Haile Sellassie I – 2017 [1] Members Of A New Race: The Teachings Of H.I.M. Haile Sellassie 1 – 2017 [1] King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia – 2017 [2] Holy Bible: Rastafari Edition – 2019 [3] Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I – 2011 [4]
King of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia after Italian victory in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War; the title was contested by Haile Selassie in exile. Italian defeat in the East African campaign of World War II , and later Italian capitulation , ended Italian pretensions of rulership over Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, romanized: Qädamawi Ḫäylä Śəllase, Amharic pronunciation: [kʼədäˈmäwi ˈhäjlə sɨlˈläse] ⓘ, lit. ' Power of the Trinity ' ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari ; [ 4 ] 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) [ 5 ] was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
Kebede Michael (Amharic: ከበደ ሚካኤል; 2 November 1916 – 12 November 1998) was an Ethiopian-born author of both fiction and non-fiction literature.He is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and versatile intellectuals of modern Ethiopia – he was a poet, playwright, essayist, translator, historian, novelist, philosopher, journalist, and government minister belonging to the ...
The first volume covers 1892–1937, from Haile Selassie's birth until the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. He began writing it while in exile in Bath, England during that war; it covers his life and the administration and modernization of Ethiopia up to that point. The second volume covers 1936–1942, and Ethiopia's occupation by Italy and return ...
Since then, there have been other translations of the whole Bible in Amharic, mostly by the Ethiopian Bible Society, but his is the first. According to Ullendorff, "Abu Rumi's version, with some changes and amendments, held sway until the Emperor Haile Sellassie I ordered a new translation of the entire Bible which appeared in 1960/1."