Classical Ethiopic or Geʿez language

Geʿez language, liturgical language of the Ethiopian church, sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic . Geʿez is a Semitic language of the Southern Peripheral group, to which also belong the South Arabic dialects and Amharic, one of the principal languages of Ethiopia. Both Geʿez and the related languages of Ethiopia are written […]

A “new heaven” and a “new earth”

The peculiar notion of a “new heaven” and a “new earth” in Isaiah 65–66 prepares the way for apocalyptic thought, but is not itself “apocalyptic.” That is, Isaiah 65–66 does not yet speak of a new, second world to come, but of a more modest renewal of this world that does not entail cosmic restructuring. […]