Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The Nine Saints who came from the north.
In the late fifth century nine monks arrived from Syria and the Roman east, learned Ge'ez, translated scripture and planted monasteries across the highlands. Eritrea's great houses — Debre Bizen above Nefasit, founded in 1361, among them — trace their discipline back to that arrival. It is the story the church tells to explain why monasticism here is older than any modern border.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe Ge'ez Bible in eighty-one books
The Kidase — the liturgy in Ge'ez
The Book of Enoch