Zera Yacob

Of Zär'a Ya'eqob, nothing is known beyond what the treatise bearing his name says. According to this text, he was born in 1599 near Aksum, into a poor family, was trained in the schools of the Ethiopian Church and taught at Aksum; he spent the end of his life at Enfraz, where his disciple was Wäldä Ḥeywät, author of a related treatise. He is said to have died in 1692. Since Carlo Conti Rossini, some scholars have held the author to be a fiction of the Capuchin missionary who discovered the manuscript, while most recent work holds him to be real.

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