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The Stephanite is a new sect in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Religion in the late 15th and in the early 16th century, particularly in the reign Emperor Zär´a Ya´ qob. Though the sect has been known to the world at least since Dillmann´s study of the writings of Emperor Zar´a Ya´ qob in 1885, there have been a few researches which mainly focus on its history so far.The author of this research; therefore, conducted historical, linguistic and philological analyses on selected manuscripts which have paramount information to the sect. Hence, the analyses would help philologists, historians, linguists and theologians.

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Teweldebrhan Mezgebe Desta has done his BEd in English in 2006 at Mekelle University and his MA in Geez Philology in 2010 at Addis Ababa University. Currently, he is a lecturer at Mekelle University in the College of Social Sciences & Languages, department of Tigrigna.

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