Talk:History of the Jews in Ethiopia
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Tradition and history are NOT the same
[edit]The article renders itself useless by mixing the two as if they were the same. I left it without believing one word because of that. Arminden (talk) 06:08, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
- And also the most widespread scientific theory of the "late ethnogenesis of the Beta Israel between the 14th to 16th centuries, from a sect of Ethiopian Christians who took on Biblical Old Testament practices, and came to identify as Jews" (Beta Israel#Recent views) is not represented here at all. Ain92 (talk) 15:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
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Fruth Al-Habehsa translation
[edit]I deleted the quote because it appears that different sources translate the arabic version in different ways.
There was the version I deleted;
This one from Edward Ullendorff (page 28) [1] Which states the following:
"The Semien province was ruled by the Jews of Abyssinia who are called Falashas in their own language; they recognize one God only and nothing else in the way of the faith: neither prophet nor saint. The people of Bahr Amba have subjugated them for the past forty years and employed them to work the land for them."
There is also this source from G.W.B Huntingford (page 228)[2] and while it doesn't exactly translate the said quote of Fruth Al-Habehsa, it makes a reference and I quote:
"On the way south he decided to invade Samen, the mountainous region between Wagara and the Takkazi, inhabited by the Falasa, who according to the Futuh were serfs of the people of Baher Amba [...]" Javext (talk) 00:58, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- No that quote was confirmed by the administrator Llywrch who mediated a previous dispute here. You are clearly editing on behalf of DestaAmora. Socialwave597 (talk) 20:34, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- The only dispute I saw was in the page's editing history and I am unsure where and when did Llywrch confirm that specific quote. But if he did, did he have access to the source from Huntingford that I gave above? If not, I would like to re-open this case. Who is DestaAmora and how exactly am I editing on his behalf? Javext (talk) 12:25, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- Here is the discussion we had on my talkpage[3], and here is Llywrch addressing Huntingford's source among others from DestaAmora[4]. Socialwave597 (talk) 18:27, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think Llywrch ever "confirmed" any translation from any source. In the first discussion he is just asking if you put down the wrong page number and in the second one he doesn't confirm anything, he just gave his own opinion as an editor and then closed the debate. The dude he was debating even gave the wrong page number of Huntingford's source so there is no way Llwyrch even checked it. Llwyrch also didn't think that Ullendorff's source was a translation of an excerpt from the Futuh and when given the link to the source, he didn't reply anymore.
- Why do you think that the current translation in the article is the most accurate and how can you sustain that claim? Why do you disregard Ullendorff's and Huntingford's?
- I think it's just best to delete the translation since different reliable sources translate it differently, there doesn't appear to be a consensus regarding it. Javext (talk) 00:01, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Llywrch, can you mediate on this topic again? Socialwave597 (talk) 04:38, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- Here is the discussion we had on my talkpage[3], and here is Llywrch addressing Huntingford's source among others from DestaAmora[4]. Socialwave597 (talk) 18:27, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- The only dispute I saw was in the page's editing history and I am unsure where and when did Llywrch confirm that specific quote. But if he did, did he have access to the source from Huntingford that I gave above? If not, I would like to re-open this case. Who is DestaAmora and how exactly am I editing on his behalf? Javext (talk) 12:25, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
I could opine about the matter of the Jews in Ethiopia before the wars of Imam Ahmad Gragn -- for example, there are three different theories as to their origins -- but I'd rather point to a simple solution to your dispute. The link above to Ullendorff's Ethiopia and the Bible contains the original Arabic. (I didn't notice that before I saw the link; I tend to ignore quoted material in non-Latin scripts, since I have no hope of reading them.) Why not ask a fellow Wikipedian who is fluent in Arabic to translate it, &/or explicate how to understand the word under discussion? Yes, there are Wikipedians fluent in that language; you just need to look for them. -- llywrch (talk) 05:56, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
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