Five years of work by a primarily Ethiopian team of researchers and translators, as well as Princeton undergraduate students, has culminated in the Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) website, a project in the digital humanities. "But few have studied the African representations of the Virgin Mary, which span from the 200s into the present," Belcher said. Although Worku grew up listening to the Marian stories, working on the PEMM project revealed new insights and discoveries. Belcher's scholarship focuses on medieval and early modern British and African literature. Her research for the PEMM project formally began in 2018, with project managers Evgeniia Lambrinaki and then Blaine Kebede.

Source: Ethiopian News December 20, 2023 21:34 UTC