A Study Of The Ancient Manuscript Of Gadla Abuna Mabaseyon

This paper dea ls with the Gcid! o/Maba' Seyon, his life and work . He was a pa inter, organizer of canon s,rnstrong teach er and apocalypti c. The V ita provides fundamental information concern ing the historica l.rnsoc io-cu ltu ra l and re ligious eve nts and fa cts of the epoch. The main objective of the paper is to make arncomparative ana lys is of different versions of the GCid! of Maba' Seyon and to comment on therndi ffe rences. In addition to th is, the researcher tri ed to ident iFy the hi storical and theologica l signi fi cancernof the text in the li ght of its own time. The methods employed here are se lecting the most releva nt Mssrnafter di gi talizing. giving reasonable identifi cation, giving adequate philological description, makingrnappropriate cl ass ification of the text accordi ng to the life of the sai nt and finally ident ify the majorrndifferences. And thereFore it has been fo und that there are different errors, miss statements andrnincongruities found when passing from Ol1e text to th e other text. Besides thi s, the li fe and work of thernSa int is very important in understand ing th e canoni ca l and theo logica l position of the Church as well asrnthe literary tradi tion of Ethiopia.

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