The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible

Books the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church keeps that other Bibles don't.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has the largest biblical canon of any church — around 81 books — and it is the only church that never stopped treating 1 Enoch and Jubilees as scripture. Several books survive complete only in Geʿez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia, because that church kept copying them long after they fell out of use everywhere else.

This collection gathers the books of the Ethiopian “broader canon” this site carries in full: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Testament of Our Lord (Books I and II), the post-resurrection revelation discourse preserved in Geʿez. The deuterocanonical books that are also part of the Ethiopian canon are listed under the Apocrypha.

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