Stephanites: Their Movement and Contendings

The Stephanite is a new sect in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Religion in the late 15th and in the early 16th century, particularly in the reign Emperor Zär'a Ya' qob. Though the sect has been known to the world at least since Dillmann's study of the writings of Emperor Zar'a Ya' qob in 1885, there have been a few researches which mainly focus on its history so far.The author of this research; therefore, conducted historical, linguistic and philological analyses on selected manuscripts which have paramount information to the sect. Hence, the analyses would help philologists, historians, linguists and theologians.

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Teweldebrhan Mezgebe Desta has done his BEd in English in 2006 at Mekelle University and his MA in Geez Philology in 2010 at Addis Ababa University. Currently, he is a lecturer at Mekelle University in the College of Social Sciences & Languages, department of Tigrigna.