“Kahen”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The high priest ({{lang|gez|ሊቀ ካሀንት}} liqa kahən, plural {{lang|gez|ሊቃነ ካህናት}} liqanä kahhənat) is the leader of the priests in a certain area.

An aspiring kahen must spend time studying as a debtera before being ordained. As a debtera, he will be closer to the laypeople and serve as an intermediary between them and the clergy. Upon becoming a kahen, he will no longer perform the services of a debtera, though he may take them up again if he gives up his position or is deposed.^[4]

The term qäsis ({{lang-gez|ቀሲሰ}}, {{lang-am|ቀሰ}} qəs; {{lang-ti|ቀሺ}} qäši),^[5] which refers to married priest in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, is a synonym for kahen, an unmarried priest, among the Beta Israel.^[6]^[4] With the aliyah of Beta Israel to Israel the Amharic "qəs" Hebraized was translated as kes ({{lang-he|קס}} or {{lang|he|קייס}}, plural {{lang|he|קסים}} or {{lang|he|קייסים}} kesim).

Notable priests

See also

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Leslau|first=Wolf|title=Comparative dictionary of Geʻez (Classical Ethiopic) : Geʻez-English, English-Geʻez, with an index of the Semitic roots|date=1987|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|location=Wiesbaden|isbn=978-3-447-02592-8|page=278|edition=[Nachdr.].}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Dillmann|first=August|title=Lexicon Linguae Æthiopicae|date=1865|publisher=Weigel|location=Leipzig|page=1342}}
3. ^Shai Afsai, “Past in the Present: An inside look at Sigd — the holiday of Ethiopian Jewry — and the struggle to secure its survival”, AMI Magazine, December 5, 2012, pp. 78–85.
4. ^¹Isaac Greenfield, "The Debtera and the education among Ethiopian Jewry until the arrival of Dr. Faitlovitch" in Menachem Waldman (ed.), Studies in the History of Ethiopian Jews, Habermann Institute for Literary Research, 2011, pp. 109–135 (Hebrew).
5. ^plural, Ge'ez: qesawast, Tigrinya: qesawasti, Amharic: qesoch
6. ^Emmanuel Fritsch, "Qäsis" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: O-X, Harrassowitz, 2010, {{ISBN|3447062460}}, pp. 262-264.