Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies

Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie talks at the International Conference "Seventy-Five Years of Ethiopian Studies: Voices Beyond Language, Cultures Beyond Borders" (13–15 May 2026. University of Warsaw) on "The ʾAndəmtā Commentary Tradition...

The volume Jonah in the Ethiopic Biblical Tradition by Jeremy Brown was recently published in the new series Ethiopic Bible and Related Literature at Mohr Siebeck. The book is available open access thanks to the support of BeInf: see here.

On 6 May 2026, Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie talks on "Authorship as Exegesis: The Reception of Biblical ‘Authors’ in the Ethiopian Andəmtā Commentary Tradition" at the International Conference "Biblia Africana: Égypte - Nubie - Éthiopie: La...

Grant from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO)

1 May 2026 

The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) has awarded a grant to Perrine Pilette, Martina Ambu, and Aaron Butts for a project documenting graffiti at the...

Anaïs Wion, a historian of Medieval Ethiopia, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 4-8 May 2026.

Getinet Merid, a PhD student at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Gondar, visits the Hiob Ludolf Centre, with the support of the Viera Pawliková-Vilhanova Award, organized by the Union Académique...