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Jewish community associated with modern-day Ethiopia
Israeli reporting and investigations from 2012–2013 document that many Ethiopian Jewish women arriving in Israel received long‑acting Depo‑Provera contraceptive injections and that some did so without...
Genetic and historical research from 2010–2020 portrays Beta Israel as a community with deep local Ethiopian roots combined with some signals compatible with ancient Levantine contact: genome‑wide stu...
The books known as 1 Enoch and Jubilees were ancient Jewish works that entered and remained in Ethiopian Christian scriptural practice early and gradually rather than at a single council; they are pre...
The Geʽez Old Testament (the Orit) is an ancient Ethiopic translation that scholars say was produced largely from Greek (the Septuagint) though some passages may reflect Hebrew Vorlage or Beta Israel ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon crystallized over centuries rather than at a single council; modern scholarship points to legal-religious compilations such as the Fetha Nägäst and litur...
Ge'ez is the classical liturgical language at the heart of Ethiopian biblical manuscripts and translations: it served as the vehicle for early Bible translations, remains the liturgical tongue of the ...
Israeli rabbis and state authorities have treated claims of Lost‑Tribe descent from African communities case‑by‑case: some groups—most notably Ethiopia’s Beta Israel and, later, the Bnei Menashe from ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition preserves an unusually large biblical corpus — commonly called “the 81 books” with an Old Testament of 46 books and a New Testament of 35 — built from early G...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church maintains one of the largest Christian canons—commonly cited as 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament)—because its canon grew from unique transmission lin...
The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish composition that is while remaining outside most Jewish and Christian canons; its Ethiopian inclusion is tied to historical, theological, and cultural assertions...