Amharic WOW

word of the week

This week, the Amharic WOW is አበነፍስ (abenefs). Literally, this means father of the breath of life. Nefs is often interpreted by the witting and unwitting spiritual disciples of Plato (who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the ‘Great’) as soul. But, in the renewed Antiochian School of Biblical Exegesis, we interpret the word as it appears contextua…