ʿƎzrā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ዕዝራ፡ ʿƎzrā ʾabbā role: title
Birth
He was born at ʾAgāma↗
Period of Activity
He was a saint of 15th to early 16th century and a follower of ʾabbā ʾƎsṭifānos . Since there was a shortage of priests following the persecution of the Stephanites by King Zarʾa Yāʿqob , he was chosen by ʾabbā ʾAbakarazun , the head of the monastery of Gunda Gunde↗ to go to Jerusalem↗ in 1476.
Death
1520
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Names
- birth: ዕዝራ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Death: 1520
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Caquot, A. 1961. ‘Les Actes d’Ezrā de Gunda-Gundē’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 4 (1961), 69–121.
Secondary Bibliography
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Beylot, R. and Red. 2005. ‘ʿƎzra’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 481a–482b.
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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, 53, 86, 133
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻʿƎzrāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-03-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS3946ezra [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 5.10.2016
- 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