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Tweed Collection Seminar
October 7, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Tweed Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Friday, October 7th, 2022
12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Online Event: via Zoom.
Zoom Registration: cutt.ly/tweed.
Humanities Unbounded Visiting Fellow Gay Byron will host a seminar featuring theTweed Collection of Ethiopic manuscripts in the School of Divinity at Howard University, featuring the following contributors:
Alice Ogden Bellis | Professor of Hebrew Bible, School of Divinity, Howard University (Author of Melaku Terafe, Stephen Delamarter, Jeremy Brown, and Alice Ogden Bellis, Catalogue of the Ethiopic Imaging Project, Vol 15: Catalogue of the André Tweed Collection at Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC (Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies; forthcoming))
Steve Delamarter | Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Portland Seminary, George Fox University (Author of Melaku Terafe, Stephen Delamarter, Jeremy Brown, and Alice Ogden Bellis, Catalogue of the Ethiopic Imaging Project, Vol 15: Catalogue of the André Tweed Collection at Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC (Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies; forthcoming))
Ralph Lee | Research Associate, Center of World Christianity, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Author of “The Ethiopic ‘Andəmta’ Commentary of Ethiopic Enoch 2 (1 Enoch 6-9)”, Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha 23 no.3, 2014).
Gay Byron | Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, School of Divinity, Howard University (Author of Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature and co-editor of Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse; forthcoming book due in Nov. 2022, Black Scholars Matter: Visions, Struggles, and Hopes in Africana Biblical Studies (Ed. Gay L. Byron and Hugh R. Page Jr.)
Description:
During this seminar, the above speakers will describe the Beta Mesaheft (BM) platform for digitally preserving and presenting Ethiopic manuscripts and some of its advantages over other choices. They will explain the process of how the metadata from manuscripts is coded and entered into BM featuring manuscripts from the Tweed Collection.
A copy of the flyer, with a hyperlink to the Zoom registration page, can be found here.