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	* [[William Jowett\|Jowett, William]]. 1824. Christian Researches in the Mediterranean from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX in Furtherance of the Objects of the [[Church Missionary Society]]. London.		* [[William Jowett\|Jowett, William]]. 1824. Christian Researches in the Mediterranean from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX in Furtherance of the Objects of the [[Church Missionary Society]]. London.
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	'''Abu Rumi''' (about [[1750 AD\|1750]] - [[1819 AD\|1819]]]]) is the name recorded as being the translator for the first entire [[Bible]] in [[Amharic]], the national language of [[Ethiopia]]. Previously, only partial Amharic translations existed, and the Ethiopian Bible existed only in [[Ge'ez language\|Ge'ez]], the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. His story is recorded by [[William Jowett]] (1824). He was educated in the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church]], but it is not clear if he was a monk, priest, or had any official status within the church.		'''Abu Rumi''' (about [[1750 AD\|1750]] - [[1819 AD\|1819]]) is the name recorded as being the translator for the first entire [[Bible]] in [[Amharic]], the national language of [[Ethiopia]]. Previously, only partial Amharic translations existed, and the Ethiopian Bible existed only in [[Ge'ez language\|Ge'ez]], the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. His story is recorded by [[William Jowett]] (1824). He was educated in the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church]], but it is not clear if he was a monk, priest, or had any official status within the church.

	According to Jowett, Abu Rumi served as a translator for the Scots explorer [[James Bruce]] at the age of 22. He left Ethiopia in his 28th year, visited [[Cairo]], [[Jerusalem]], [[Syria]] and [[India]], where he resided in the house of Sir [[William Jones (philologist)\|William Jones]]. "We are not told what he is supposed to have taught that great orientalist," writes [[Edward Ullendorff]], "but presumably it was a smattering of [[Ge'ez]] and Amharic poetry" (Ullendorff, 1968: 66).		According to Jowett, Abu Rumi served as a translator for the Scots explorer [[James Bruce]] at the age of 22. He left Ethiopia in his 28th year, visited [[Cairo]], [[Jerusalem]], [[Syria]] and [[India]], where he resided in the house of Sir [[William Jones (philologist)\|William Jones]]. "We are not told what he is supposed to have taught that great orientalist," writes [[Edward Ullendorff]], "but presumably it was a smattering of [[Ge'ez]] and Amharic poetry" (Ullendorff, 1968: 66).

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'''Abu Rumi''' (about [[1750 AD|1750]] - [[1819 AD|1819]]]]) is the name recorded as being the translator for the first entire [[Bible]] in [[Amharic]], the national language of [[Ethiopia]]. Previously, only partial Amharic translations existed, and the Ethiopian Bible existed only in [[Ge'ez language|Ge'ez]], the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. His story is recorded by [[William Jowett]] (1824). He was educated in the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church]], but it is not clear if he was a monk, priest, or had any official status within the church.

According to Jowett, Abu Rumi served as a translator for the Scots explorer [[James Bruce]] at the age of 22. He left Ethiopia in his 28th year, visited [[Cairo]], [[Jerusalem]], [[Syria]] and [[India]], where he resided in the house of Sir [[William Jones (philologist)|William Jones]]. "We are not told what he is supposed to have taught that great orientalist," writes [[Edward Ullendorff]], "but presumably it was a smattering of [[Ge'ez]] and Amharic poetry" (Ullendorff, 1968: 66).

While travelling through Cairo, at which time his age is estimated at "about fifty or fifty-five years of age" (Jowett, 1824:201), he became very ill and was taken in by M. Asselin de Cherville, the French Consul in Cairo. He provided Abu Rumi with food, lodging, and medical care. But he also provided him with writing materials. Over 10 years, Abu Rumi produced a complete translation of the Bible in Amharic. He then made one more journey to Jerusalem; Abu Rumi died of the [[Plague (disease)|plague]] in Cairo.

The manuscript containing his translation was eventually purchased by [[William Jowett]] on behalf of the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]]. He took it back to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] where it was typeset and printed. These printed copies were sent back to Ethiopia. There were a number of editions made of Abu Rumi's original translation, different editors making some changes, but the original work is his. A copy of Abu Rumi's translation of the Bible in Amharic was eventually found in a monastery in the early 1860s and launched a church renewal movement that eventually led to the founding of the [[Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus]] (Aren 1978:14, 15, 104).

Since then, there have been other translations of the whole Bible in Amharic, mostly by the [[Ethiopian Bible Society]], but his is the first. According to Ullendorff, "Abu Rumi's version, with some changes and amendments, held sway until the Emperor [[Haile Selassie of Ethiopia|Haile Sellassie I]] ordered a new translation of the entire Bible which appeared in 1960/1" (Ullendorff 1968: 66).

== Sources ==
* Arén, Gustav. 1978. Evangelical Pioneers in Ethiopia. Stockholm: Stockholm: EFS Forlaget.
* [[William Jowett|Jowett, William]]. 1824. Christian Researches in the Mediterranean from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX in Furtherance of the Objects of the [[Church Missionary Society]]. London.
* Ullendorff, Edward. 1968. ''Ethiopia and the Bible''. Oxford: The British Academy.

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