Meseret Sebhat Leab (Bibliography)

(1) Sources
1.1 Monographs

Meseret Sebhat Leab. Səmə’a s’ədəq: bəherawi bät’ənətawəyan yä’orətodokäs betä kärəsətiyan mäməhəran fəläga [ስምዓ ፡ ጽድቅ ፣ : ብሔራዊ ። በጥንታውያን ፡ የኦርቶዶከስ ፡ ቤተ ፡ ከርስቲያን ፡ መምህራን ፍለጋ ።, Indigenous Witness for the Truth). Addis Ababa: Artistic Printing Press, 1959. [Available at Tel Aviv Univ.]

—. Sərä bəzu [ሥረ ብዙ, Many Roots/Anchors]. Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press, 1969. [Available at Tel Aviv Univ.]

—. Ethiopian Orthodox Church History [working title]. TEE textbook. Addis Ababa, c. 1971

—. Towfite Hasabe Zemen and History [_ _ _, Ethiopian Church Calendar, Its Computation and History]. Hong Kong: New Life Literature, 1988.

—. Ariyosawiyan [_ _ _, The Arians-Jehovah Witnesses]. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa Mekane Yesus Literature Department, 1993.

—. Qal Egizeabeher Nebere [_ _ _, The Word was God]. Addis Ababa: Artistic Printing Press, 1995.

—. Sellassie Betewahido [_ _ _, Trinity]. Addis Ababa: Berhanena Selam Printing Press, 1996.

1.2 Articles

Yacob Tesfai and Meseret Sebhat Leab. “Judaic elements in Ethiopian Christianity and Falashas”, in Christian-Jewish relations in ecumenical perspective: With special emphasis on Africa; A report on the Conference of the WCC Consultation on the Church and the Jewish People, Jerusalem, 16 – 26 June, 1977, ed. F. von Hammerstein, p. _ _ _. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1978.

Čorra Periodical

  • Many articles written by Meseret Sebhat Leab as editor, etc.
1.3 Manuscripts
1.3.1 Manuscripts written by Meseret Sebhat Leab

Teaching handouts for courses in Ge’ez, Amharic, and the EOTC at MYS

1.3.2 Manuscripts acquired by Meserete Sebhat Leab for MYS

Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab Collection

  • See overview of codices at HMML [upon registration]

(3) Secondary Literature

3.1 Published texts

Daniel Teshome. The Current (1987-2007) Reformation Movement within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. Addis Ababa: Rehobot Printers, 2007. [= M.A. thesis, Ev. Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, 2008]

Dirshaye Menberu. “Meseret Sebhat Leab”, in Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2006. [View online]

Magaarsaa Guutaa. From a Humble Beginning to Advanced Standing: A History of the Mekane Yesus Seminary [1960-2010]. Addis Ababa: Mekane Yesus Seminary, 2011. [View online at Concordia Sem.]

Melaku Terefe, Steve Delamarter and Jeremy R. Brown. Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, vol. 7: Codices 601–654. The Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab Collection of Mekane Yesus Seminary, Addis Ababa (Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series, 13). Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

  • See p. xxxi – lv: Loren Bliese, Mehret-Ab Bereke and Walda Estifanos. “Aläqa Mäsärät Sǝbḥat LäꜤab: A Biography” [includes an introduction to his major writings; Google Books, JSTOR]

Seblewengel Daniel. Perception and Identity: A Study of the Relationship between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Evangelical Churches in Ethiopia. Carlisle: Langham Monographs, 2019.

3.2 Unpublished papers

Alemayehu Haile Mariam. Biography of Aleqa Meseret Sebhat Leab. BTh thesis, Evangelical Theological College, Addis Ababa, 2004.

Dawit Chibsa. Meseret Sebhat Leab: an Orthodox Evangelical Conversion. BTh thesis, Mekane Yesus Seminary, Addis Ababa, 1990.