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Arpa Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 (edited) Vigil I don't think you got the gist of my post. On second thought I'm sure you did but ignored it. Let me repeat, this thread is about Ethiopia, not Genocide or any other, not about Turkey etc. If you guys want to talk about the AG there is a category for it, if the debate will be about social and political and world affair there is a place for that too. Poor Ruben asked a simple question, not really that simple, yet he got no relevenatly logical answer. The answer may be that we don't know much. In fact we don't know, and the other fact is that there really is no connection between the Armenian and the Ethiopian churches, and whatever there is may just be coincidental. Of course there once was a sizable community in Addis Abeba which was mainly due to the dipsrsion(oops!). Other than that there may be evidence that the Ethiopians met Jesus much before we did. See here; From the Bible. Some have assumed the servant below was (black)African, perhaps Ethiopian. ======= Matt.8 [5] And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, [8] The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. [13] And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. ===== As to Armenians in Ethiopia with apologies to Ruben since I know no more than any other. Kohrenatsi has mentioned that there were Armenians, and an Armnenian commander, Zarmayr in the Assyrian army under Priamos that invaded those lands. Pursuant to that some Armenians had moved to Ethiopia during the Arab conquest, mainly as merchants or professionals. The most memorable encounter of Armenians with the Ethiopians was during the Chaldean convention(which they boycotted) where their theological ideas coincided, i.e they became so-called monophysites, aka heretics. There may also be fables that Armenians christianized Ethiopia and composed their alphabet (again a coincedence since their alphabet remotely resemble ours and despite the fact that they are Semite?/Hamite? their alphabet is detached unlike Arabic and Aramaic. As to modern Armenian history in Ethiopia there are several internet sites that say it much better than I could. Please, please leave me out because I don't want to partake in this debate anymore. As to Arm-Ethiop, perhaps we should ask the Ethiopians and see what they know about us next to nothing. Edited May 24, 2004 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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