Early Ethiopic is a linguistic introduction to classical Ethiopic/Ge'ez with clear and concise grammatical descriptions. This work is thoroughly grounded in current linguistic research on the grammar of Ge'ez. Each chapters is organized for optimal first-time encounter of the language, including a variety of exercises. Among the exercises are readings from the earliest Ethiopic Gospel of Mark set both within a colorful illustrated setting and also presented from color photographs of the manuscript pages.
Robert D. Holmstedt (BA, Wheaton College; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison) is a professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He carries out research on and teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and West Semitic Languages. He is committed to both a Nietzschean slow reading of texts and theoretical linguistic analysis of the language of those texts. His publications range from verse-by-verse linguistic commentaries on biblical books to various grammatical topics in Hebrew, Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Ge'ez. He lives with his wife and nine children in the Niagara region of Ontario.
