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The Faith of the Fathers

ሃይማኖተ፡ አበው፡ (Hāymānota ʾabaw); Arabic: اعتراف الآباء (Iʿtirāf al-ʾābāʾ) · anonymous (Arabic original; Ethiopic translation) · Arabic original 1077-1079; Ethiopic translation before 1577 · treatise · LIT1586Hayman

Ethiopic · domain: theology · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT1586Hayman carries no 'listBibl type="translation"' at all, only secondary literature (Graf GCAL II 322; Ricci 1969; Isenberg 1841; Wion-Fritsch 2005) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1586Hayman.xml. HOLLIS 'Haymanota Abaw' returns 3 records, none a translation of this work: a 1986 French rendering of a 20th-c. Amharic commentary ('Hāymānota abaw qaddamt = La foi des pères anciens: enseignement de mamher Kefla Giyorgis', Stuttgart: Steiner, lang amh/fre), a CSCO volume of Severianus/Gregory Thaumaturgus/Cyril tracts (gez;ger), and a Festschrift - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Haymanota%20Abaw&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . Open Library 'Haymanota Abaw' returns 4 records, all Ge'ez/Amharic or the French commentary (https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=%22Haymanota+Abaw%22). No English translation located.

A creed-and-testimonies florilegium (Hierotheus, Ignatius, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, extracts of the Didascalia) that served as a monastic profession of faith; in manuscripts it is regularly followed by Maṣḥafa ṭomār and prefixed by Tǝmhǝrta ḫǝbuʾāt. The TEI record registers a single witness, BL Add. 16219, although the work is widely copied - the single-witness note is a Beta Masaheft limitation, not evidence of single-manuscript survival. Translation into Ethiopic is dated only ante quem (before 1577); attribution to ʾAbbā Mābʿāʾ (Isenberg) is rejected by Wion-Fritsch.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
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Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "The Faith of the Fathers" — 51 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
The faith of the fathers; a play in three acts
Berman, Henry · 1922 · eng
Berman, Henry. "The faith of the fathers; a play in three acts." New York, Ottarson, 1922. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990040395280203941
The faith of the fathers; a play in three acts
Berman, Henry · 1922 · eng
Berman, Henry. "The faith of the fathers; a play in three acts." New York, N. L. Brown, 1922. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160277671403941
The faith of the fathers; address delivered at Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 10, 1912, at the notification of Eugene W. Chafin, [prohibition] candidate for president
Calderwood, Willis Greenleaf, 1866- · 1912 · eng
Calderwood, Willis Greenleaf, 1866-. "The faith of the fathers; address delivered at Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 10, 1912, at the notification of Eugene W. Chafin, [prohibition] candidate for president." [Chicago, 1912.]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990047751570203941
The faith of the fathers; address delivered at Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 10, 1912, at the notification of Eugene W. Chafin, [prohibition] candidate for president
Calderwood, Willis Greenleaf, 1866- · 1912 · eng
Calderwood, Willis Greenleaf, 1866-. "The faith of the fathers; address delivered at Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 10, 1912, at the notification of Eugene W. Chafin, [prohibition] candidate for president." [Chicago, 1912.]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990047751550203941
The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, : all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament. Partly, to confirm those who do possess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs; and, bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdom of the just; and so, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 · 1699 · eng
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. "The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, : all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament. Partly, to confirm those who do possess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs;…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Faith of the Fathers” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-haymanota-abaw