ʾIsāyǝyyās
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ኢሳይያስ፡ ʾIsāyǝyyās ʾabbā role: title
Birth
He was born at ʿAgama↗ in 1485.
Period of Activity
He was the sixth abbot of the monastery of Gunda Gunde↗ and became an abbot in 1555 succeeding ʾabbā Takla Nabiyāt . He was a relative of ʾabbā role: title ʾƎsṭifānos , the first leader of Stephanites . He took the monastic habit at the age of 15 from the hands of Gabra Maśiḥ . He was represented in the community as an interpreter of the Scriptures.
Death
He died in 1572
Author of
- On the Passion of our Lord and the Thief attributed.
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Names
- monastic: ኢሳይያስ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1485
Period of activity: 1555
Occupation
abbot
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Ferenc, A. 1976. ‘Les Actes d’Isaïe de Gunda-Gundé’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 10 (1976), 243–294.
Secondary Bibliography
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Beylot, R. and A. Bausi 2007. ‘Isayǝyyas’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 196b–197a.
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Kaplan, S. 1984. The monastic holy man and the christianization of early Solomonic Ethiopia, Studien zur Kulturkunde, 73 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984). page 42
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻʾIsāyǝyyāsʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 6.10.2016) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS5586Isayeyya [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 6.10.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor