Qemant

The Qemant traditionally practiced a religion which is said to combine elements from Judaism, paganism and animism. According to the American scholar Frederic C. Gamst, their "Hebraism is an ancient form and unaffected by Hebraic change of the past two millenia". A recent sociolinguistic survey notes that the Kemant religion is in a very precarious situation since very few people still adhere to it. According to this study, the ratio of those who follow the Kemant religion vs. those who are baptized and converted to Orthodox Christianity is about 1% vs. 99%^{See also:}

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  • African Jews     • Qemant     • Falas Mora   • Other Jewish groups" Ethiopia: 15,000 (est.)   • African Jews     • Qemant     • Falas Mora   • Other Jewish groups The Beta Israel (or "House of Israel"), known by outsiders by the term Falasha ("exiles" or "strangers"), a term that they con ...

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Beta Israel - Traditions of the Beta Israel. The Ethiopian legend described in the Kebra Negast relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (or Makida, in the legend). The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult, returned to his father in Jerusalem, and then resettled in Ethiopia, and that he took with him the Ark of the Covenant. In the Bible there is no mention that the Queen of Sheba either marrie ...

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Horn of Africa - Ancient history. The Kingdom of Aksum was an African state located in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen that thrived between the 3rd and 11th centuries. Due to the Horn's strategic location, it has been used to restrict access to the Red Sea in the past. The region was also a source of biological resources during the Antiquity: The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans sent expeditions to the region for frankincense, myrrh, dragon's blood or cinnabar and took these commodities back along the Incense Route. Therefore the Romans called this region Regio Aromatica. < ...

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The Beta Israel, also known as Chabashim, come from a Jewish enclave in the Ethiopian highlands that had little contact with other Jewish communities until the 1860s. One of the earliest dated references to the Beta Israel in Ethiopian literature is in the Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon (trans. G.W.B. Huntingford [Oxford: Clarendon Press], p. 61), which mentions a revolt in the province of Begemder by "t ...

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The holiest work is the Torah—Orit (i.e., oraita, "Tora" in Aramaic). All the holy writings, including the Torah, are handwritten on parchment pages that are assembled into a book rather than a scroll. The rest of the Prophets and the Hagiographa are of secondary importance. Outside the Biblical canon, a number of the external writings—the books of Hanoch, Jubilees, Baruch and the books of Ezra—are held sacred as well. The basic wording of Beta Israel Biblical writings was passed down apparently through the ancient Greek translations like the Septuagin ...

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The Israeli government accepted the Beta Israel as Jews officially in 1975; Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin obtained clear rulings from Chief Sefardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef that they were legitimate descendants of the lost tribes. They were however required to undergo pro forma halakhic conversions to Judaism, as is done in all cases of doubt, however slight. Operation Moses came to an abrupt halt in 1985, leaving many of the Beta Israel still in Ethiopia. It was not until 1990 that the governments of Israel and Ethiopia came ...

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The Horn of Africa is a UNESCO's Biodiversity Hotspot and one of the two entirely arid ones. However the Horn of Africa suffers largely from overgrazing and only 5% of its original habitat still remains. On Socotra, another great threat is the development of infrastructure. Horn of Africa - Fauna. About 220 mammals are found in the Horn of Africa. Among threatened species of the region, we find several antelopes such as the beira, the dibatag, the silver dikdik and the Speke’s gazelle. Other remarkable s ...

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The holiest work is the Torah -- Orit (i.e., oraita, "Tora" in Aramaic). All the holy writings, including the Torah, are handwritten on parchment pages that are assembled into a book rather than a scroll. The rest of the Prophets and the Hagiographa are of secondary importance. Outside the Biblical canon, a number of the external writings—the books of Hanoch, Jubilees, Baruch and the books of Ezra—are held sacred as well. The basic wording of Beta Israel Biblical writings was passed down apparently through the ancient Greek targumim (translations) like the Septuagin ...

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The Beta Israel, also known as Chabashim, come from a Jewish enclave in the Ethiopian highlands that had no contact with other Jewish communities until the 1860s. One of the earliest dated references to the Beta Israel in Ethiopian literature is in the Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon (trans. G.W.B. Huntingford [Oxford: Clarendon Press], p. 61), which mentions a revolt in the province of Begemder by "t ...

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After the rise of Christianity in Ethiopia in the fourth century, the Jews who refused to convert were persecuted and withdrew to the mountainous Gondar region where they made their homes for more than 2000 years. In the tenth century, they rose against the Axum dynasty led by Queen Judith who overthrew the "negus" (king) and sought to eradicate Christianity throughout the country. She is remembered to this day. Later, with the establishment of a new royal dynasty, the Jews of Ethiopia enjoyed great influence for some 350 years often acting as the balance of power ...

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The Israeli government accepted the Beta Israel as Jews officially in 1975; Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin obtained clear rulings from Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef that they were legitimate descendants of the lost tribes. They were however required to undergo pro forma halakhic conversions to Judaism. Operation Moses came to an abrupt halt in 1985, leaving many of the Beta Israel still in Ethiopia. It was not until 1990 that the governments of Israel and Ethiopia came to an agreement that would allow the remaining Beta Israe ...

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The Horn of Africa, almost equidistant from the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer, is an arid region. Socotra is a small island off the coast of Somalia, in the Indian Ocean, that is considered to be part of Africa. Its size is 3,600 square km. It is a territory of Yemen, the southernmost country on the Arabian peninsula. ...

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Qemant - Notes. ^  Leyew 2002 p. 8. Qemant - References. Gamst, Frederic C. (1969) The Quemant. A Pagan-Hebraic Peasantry of Ethiopia. New York: Holt, Rinehart And Winston. Hancock, Graham (1992) The Sign and The Seal (pp. 241-249). New York: Touchstone Books. Leyew, Zelealem (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Kemant (Qimant) Language of Ethio ...

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The origins of the Qemant are shrouded by history, as they do not have any written history. According to oral tradition, the founder of the Qemant was a man called Anayer. Anayer is said to have been a grandson of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah. After seven years of famine in his own country, he is said to have come to the area of Lake Tana, in Ethiopia. As he traveled with his wife and children, he met the founder of the Beta Israel, who is said to have been traveling in the same direction. According to Wambar Muluna Marsha, they were from the same c ...

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