{"id":270248,"date":"2019-05-01T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMibGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnByaW5jZXRvbi5lZHUvbmV3cy8yMDE5LzAzLzE5L3ByaWVzdHMtc2Nob2xhcnMtZ2F0aGVyLWNlbGVicmF0ZS1wcmluY2V0b25zLWV0aGlvcGlhbi1tYW51c2NyaXB0c9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:01","slug":"princeton-opened-its-ethiopian-manuscript-vaults-to-priests-and-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/270248","title":{"rendered":"Princeton opened its Ethiopian manuscript vaults to priests and scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 March 2019 Princeton University hosted priests and scholars around its Ethiopian manuscript collections, displaying about twenty items spanning the 1500s to the 1900s and letting clergy from Los Angeles churches read the parchments aloud to a packed room.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Renewed-Conflict-in-Northern-Ethiopia-Threatens-Historic-Rock-Hewn-Churches-in-Lalibela.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Princeton opened its Ethiopian manuscript vaults to priests and scholars\" \/>\n<p>Ge\u2019ez manuscripts are not museum trophies first. They are liturgy, law, and memory that diaspora priests still know how to voice when Western libraries keep the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage diplomacy matters while wars destroy highland monasteries and while foreign collectors treat Ethiopian Christianity as exotic inventory.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture\/history reference, the Princeton event is a quiet reminder that Ethiopia\u2019s written tradition is deep, living, and too often stored far from the communities that authored it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/19\/priests-scholars-gather-celebrate-princetons-ethiopian-manuscripts\">Princeton University<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priests, scholars gather to celebrate Princeton&#8217;s Ethiopian manuscripts Academics&nbsp;&nbsp;Princeton UniversityEthiopian scholars and priests shared their knowledge of Ethiopia&#8217;s ancient tradition of written literature and bound manuscripts at a Marc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Renewed-Conflict-in-Northern-Ethiopia-Threatens-Historic-Rock-Hewn-Churches-in-Lalibela.jpg?fit=669%2C446&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-18iQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602512,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270248\/revisions\/602512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}