Qozmos
Solomon Gebreyes, Sophia Dege-Müller
Names
birth: ቆዝሞስ፡↗ normalized: Qozmos↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a monk of the 14th century who came from ʾAksum↗ to the monastery called Zāzo↗ . Qozmos↗ was an extreme ascetic who lived in a separate cell and refused all cooked food, as well as the Eucharist. He was highly accepted by those who practiced the religion of Jews in Semen↗ and Ṣallamt↗ who viewed him as a semi-divine. He was the enemy of Dāwit II↗ . Qozmos is known from the Gadla Yāfqǝranna ʾƎgziʾ.
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Names
- birth: ቆዝሞስ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1300–1399
Occupation
monk
Faith
Judaism
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Kaplan, S. 2010. ‘Qozmos’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 303a-b.
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Kaplan, S. 1992. The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (New York, NY–London: New York University Press, 1992).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Sophia Dege-Müller, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻQozmosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-11-26) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS8041Qozmos [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Sophia Dege-Müller added floruit, relation on 26.11.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 30.11.2016
- 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
Sophia Dege-Müller, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor