Am I the only one who finds it weird that saying an Ethiopian scholar from the 17thc translated a Greek text is claiming that I am saying all African lit is derivative?
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(This is not a toot-my-own-horn) thread btw).
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For Northern Europe we constantly talk about the links that they had with Asia and Africa. Archbishops of Canterbury coming from N Africa for instance, beads and pottery found in burials from N Africa, jewels from SE Asia, etc.
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One thing that I always thought very interesting was the trade of MSS. They moved huge distances. We only have many of our Greek texts from Arabic scholars.
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So personally, I find it very odd that one of the oldest Christian kingdoms in existence would not have had an interest in other Christian texts from the ME and Asia, that were certainly circulating in that area.
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Also claiming that Greek texts are purely European has so many problems.
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