Jewish Autonomy in Conflict with Christians in Northern Ethio... - 9781802701869

Jewish Autonomy in Conflict with Christians in Northern EthiopiaThe Gideonite Dynasty and the Solomonic Kingdom\nAuthor(s): Bar Kribus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Arc Humanities Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Arc Humanities Press\nISBN-13: 9781802701869, 978-1802701869\nSynopsis\nMedieval and early modern Jews usually lived as a minority under non-Jewish rule, but there are a few known cases of independent or autonomous Jewish polities. One of the most intriguing is the autonomous Beta??sra?el (Ethiopian Jews) in the S?men Mountains of Ethiopia.\n\nBeta??sra?el oral tradition refers to this polity as the Kingdom of the Gideonites. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the Beta??sra?el of the S?men and its surroundings were involved in a series of wars against the Christian Solomonic kingdom, until finally being subdued in the late 1620s.\n\nBased, in part, on the archaeological survey of Beta??srael monastic sites, this book examines not only textual and oral accounts, bu.