ABSTRACT
Ever since the sixteenth century, Christian missionaries to Ethiopia have been struck by the Ethiopians' particular customs when it comes to religion and have ascribed them to Jewish influences. What explanation do the partisans of the Judaic thesis supply for these Jewish influences, which they note or think to note? For at least a certain time they kept to the Ethiopian explanation itself, which is to say: the traditions concerning the Queen of Sheba and the Solomonic origin of the Ethiopian sovereigns. Edward Ullendorff carried out some very useful work by recording every possible connection between the Ethiopian customs and Judaism. He would seem to have been almost exhaustive in this, and his list can only be the subject of minimal additions.
