Keeper of the Word

The priest of Debre Maryam, Lake Tana, with the church's illuminated 13th-century Bible, caught during a split second of immobility.
Ethiopia is like a time capsule... Christianity is still practiced as it was in the 4th century AD, Judaism is still of the First Temple type, and a small group, the Qemant, retain a Pagano-Hebraic religion so old it preserves the very dawn of monotheism.