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Abba Garima Monastery

Building in Ethiopia

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Jan 15, 2026
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What are the Garima Gospels and what do carbon‑dating studies say about their age?

The Garima Gospels are two (with traces of a third) illuminated Geʽez gospel codices long preserved at the Abba Garima Monastery in northern Ethiopia; they contain all four canonical Gospels with deco...

Jan 13, 2026

How do the Garima Gospels compare textually to Greek and Syriac Gospel manuscripts?

The Garima Gospels—three illuminated Geʽez manuscripts preserved at Abba Garima—are radiocarbon‑dated to late antiquity and preserve some of the earliest Ethiopic Gospel translations, but their textua...