Lincoln Etchebéhère JUNIOR and Thiago Pereira de Sousa LEPINSKI
Oriental Christianity: the Ethiopian Church in the Middle Ages
Cristandade Oriental: a Igreja Etíope na Idade Média
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Keywords: Ethiopia, Ethiopic Church, Monophisism, Solomon Tradition.
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2009_05.pdfThe goal of the present communication is to present a study about the Copt Church of Ethiopia, that according to tradition, was born on apostolic times, with Jewish and monophisist influences. Still according to Ethiopic national traditions, this Christian’s would already have found a monotheist people, due to the conversion of the Queen of Sabbath to the mosaic faith, after its biblical meeting with King Solomon. The descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sabbath would have given origin to the Solomon dynasty. The sovereign of this dynasty was, in the sixteenth century, identified as the legendary Priest John of India.