Description
An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships
Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God, the narrative of Sheba and Solomon, the material presence of the Ark of the Covenant in Axum. For Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, these classic understandings of the covenant are prized narratives. For historical and scriptural scholarship, a central focus is to explain the characteristics of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity as retaining key Old Testament qualities to demonstrate a wide chasm with post-Enlightenment, secular societies. By widening the lens of analysis to include a body of knowledge best accessed through Orthodox Christian devotional culture, The Covenant's Veil offers an interpretation that challenges the reader to adopt a novel understanding of these well-established ideas.
The multiple, complex ways that the covenant idea appears as ideas, idioms, customs, symbols, and articulations in
