The hundred and fifty years before the Protestant Reformation
used to be seen as a period of religious decadence. More recently,
they have been understood as an era of rather anxious piety, in
which the faithful purchased indulgences, went on...
Ethiopia has a long and complex history with Jews and Judaism.
Perhaps most constitutive of the connection between the two is an
Ethiopian tradition according to which the favor of the God of
Israel, along with the ark of the covenant, was...