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ASSEFA BALCHA.

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The limitations of modern western medicine following the Italian expulsion in 1941 created space for a range of alternative therapies to flourish. No longer persecuted, and officially recognized by the state, cleric/non-secular and other forms of indigenous healing modalities thrived during the Imperial era. A new system of therapy that combined indigenous medical knowledge with allopathic medical practice, particularly of the ‘injectionists’, ‘injectors’ or’ needlemen’ (Amh: mārfie wāgie) emerged during this period. Consequently, older forms of indigenous therapeutics underwent transformations in response to changing social conditions, including the growth and proliferation of modern medical ideas and technologies. These situations assisted therapeutic pluralism to be a feature of the post-Italian medical landscape. People seeking medical treatments during the imperial era picked up their therapeutic preference/s from this pluralistic healthcare delivery system. There are very few and fragmentary researches on the subject in Ethiopia. This study relying heavily on archival and oral sources provides a critical historical account on the training, degree of acceptance and popularity of ‘injectionists’ who provided an alternative medical service in Wällo, Ethiopia. While full references are given in the bibliography, the following acronyms are used in the in-text citations: Dässie Hospital (DH); Dessie Zuria Workers’ Party (DZWP); Imperial Ethiopian Government (IEG); Ministry of Health (MoH); Ministry of Public Health (MoPH); Ministry of Interior (MoI); Municipality of Dässie (MoD); Wällo Provincial Governorate Office (WPGO); Wällo Provincial Health Department (WPHD).

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Imad M. Alatiqi.

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This Study attempts to tackle the most plausible timeframe of the prophet Moses and his Exodus from Egypt from a holistic point of view. We have employed archeological, astronomical, environmental, and documentary evidence in arriving at our results. In doing so, we were able to synchronize the applicable global forces with the original older historic sources like the chronologies of Manetho and Berrosus. Furthermore, key material culture changes were observed as tracers of major markers for civilization shift. We also consulted various signs from the holy scriptures as appropriate. The chronology closely followed major shifts in Egyptian dynastic rotation. It was found that Moses’ Exodus time marked the end of the old kingdom’s 6 th dynasty. The findings were confirmed by matching events from the Babylonian chronology, where it was found to mark the beginning of Khamazi dynasty. As a follow up on this result, we established the identity of Akhthoey the first king of Khamazi, as descendent of both Kohath the Levite, and Qahtan, an Arabian progenitor.

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Walelign Melak (with Desalegn Hagos & Mulugeta Tarekegn).

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This paper explores the naming practices, meanings, and grammatical structures of descriptive settlement place names, in Gojjam. It examines how natural and sociocultural factors influence the naming of places. Natural factors include elements like the presence of spring water, proximity to the seashore, the function of rivers, and the local flora, fauna, soil color, land use patterns, and climate conditions. SocioCultural Causes involve aspects like speech patterns of residents, frequent activities held in the area, and the historical presence of settlements. The meanings of these names can be both literal (referential) and suggestive (connotative). The grammar of place names exhibits internally a range of grammatical features. Their form may indicate grammatical functions like diminutive, accusative, purposive, possessive), locative), and conditional. Their ineternal structure may have inflectional morphmes, and they can be compounds, noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and postpositional phrases

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Assefa Balcha.

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Based on local Amharic and Ge'ez medical manuscripts and secondary source materials, along with a wide-ranging oral data that have been gathered over an extended period, this study makes a critical examination and thoughtful analysis as to how healers mastering an extensive knowledge of therapeutically valuable herbs provided their expert medical services to their community members in Wāllo, Ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to reconstruct the multifarious role herbalist-healers played in the fight against plethora of human and animal diseases. How herbalist-healers learned and/or inherited the requisite medical knowledge and treatment skill is the other facet of this historically-informed research. Additionally, why the society upheld mixed attitude towards herbalist-healers has been explored in the wider socio-cultural and religious contexts. The impact of modern western medicine as a major reason for the decline and marginalization of the indigenous therapeutic wisdom is also examined. Despite the enormous challenges facing indigenous medicine, the study proposes the need for salvaging this valuable medical lore in a speedy, multi-faceted, calibrated, and extensive manner before it is irretrievably lost.

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Andualam Kebede (with Getachew Endalamaw).

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This study aims to investigate the type and function of the Amharic directive speech act in conversation. It employed the descriptive method of qualitative research, using data from classroom lectures that were videotaped and converted to written or recorded data for a third-degree supplementary study of teaching Amharic. The study analyzed directive speech act utterances found in the documented data using the conversation analysis method. According to the research data, a total of 402 speech turns were taken by the interlocutors in the conversation. In these turns, 890 utterances were spoken, of which 348 (39.10%) were found to be the directive speech act. Six types of directive speech acts were found in the conversation: question, permission, command, invitation, suggestion, and warning. The functions of these directive speech acts are as follows: the question type (providing ideas, verifying, checking, remembering, predicting, and asking permitting); the permission type (allowing, giving opportunity, and continuing); the command type (commanding, continuing, forcing, terminating, and denying); the invitation type (inviting, pulling, and pushing); the suggestion type (alternatively recommending and pointing); and the warning type (warning, admonishing, and reprimanding).

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Imad M. AlAtiqi.

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Ever since the land of Retenu appeared in the inscriptions of Egyptian monuments, it was readily assumed to denote Syria- Palestine. Over the subsequent decades, doubt has been cast on this toponymic designation, and attempts have been made to assign an alternative location. This paper addresses the difficulties surrounding such assignment and provides evidence pointing towards a location in the Yemen of south Arabia. The identified location is Wadi Adhanah basin which lies in the center of the country and is considered the largest water resource basin in the country. It was found that toponyms mentioned in the Egyptian monuments and records are identical to the ancient topographical locations in and around Wadi Adhanah. Furthermore, the recent advances in archaeology established a vivid bronze age culture in the Yemen which featured material culture and resources that copies what was recorded in the Egyptian and south Arabian records. The strategic location of the wadi Adhanah and Yemen in general across the Red Sea from Egypt, and its wealth of produce, made it an attractive economic supplier, who was often subjected to the campaigns of the kings of Egypt. Unlike southern Arabia, Syria-Palestine did not have natural and material resources mentioned in the Egyptian records that were obtained from Retenu.

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