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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon includes many books absent from the King James Version (KJV) — commonly reported as an 81–88‑book canon that adds texts like 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the three Meqabyan...
The Ethiopian Orthodox (Tewahedo) biblical canon contains many books not found in most Western Bibles — most commonly cited unique titles include 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the three Books of Meqabyan (Ethiop...
The Garima Gospels are two (with traces of a third) illuminated Geʽez gospel codices long preserved at the Abba Garima Monastery in northern Ethiopia; they contain all four canonical Gospels with deco...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains roughly 81 books, including a suite of Old and New Testament writings that do not appear in the 66‑book King James Version; notable inclusions are 1 Enoc...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church regards its Bible as the central, authoritative foundation of doctrine, worship, and moral teaching, embracing a distinctive and expansive canon that shapes the ...
The Ethiopian Bible differs from the King James Version primarily in its expanded canon and the theological emphases that flow from that larger corpus: books such as 1 Enoch and additional Maccabean a...
Ethiopian Orthodox theologians ground the doctrine of saints’ intercession primarily in the Bible as read in the Ethiopian canon (Old and New Testaments), in biblical-apocryphal texts such as 1 Enoch ...
Contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox theologians respond to Protestant critiques about the veneration of saints and the efficacy of sacraments by situating their practices within a continuous patristic sac...
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo theology emphasizes sacramental mystagogy, the active presence of angels and saints in daily devotion, and a liturgical, theosis-centered spirituality that treats sacrament...
Ge'ez became the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s sacred scriptural and liturgical tongue through a long process of translation, manuscript production and ecclesiastical consolidation that began in Late An...
The evidence in the provided reporting indicates that Emperor Haile Selassie I played a decisive patronage and imprimatur role in producing a modern Amharic Bible that effectively fixed a narrower, pr...
Reliable English access to the Ethiopian (Orthodox Tewahedo) canon requires a mix of primary church resources, careful use of selected scholarly collections, and skepticism toward commercial “complete...
Ethiopian liturgy and the patristic tradition that undergirds it present Christ’s passion as the decisive, salvific act by which humanity is cleansed, healed and reunited to God—a reality celebrated l...
Scholars describe Western churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant) as using three core tests—apostolicity, orthodoxy/doctrinal conformity, and widespread church use or recognition—developed between t...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon typically contains 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament) and uniquely includes texts such as 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Paralipomena of Jeremiah (...
Ethiopian Orthodox worship shapes biblical interpretation through a larger canon (often cited as up to 81 books) and a liturgical, tradition-centered hermeneutic that integrates Judaic customs, liturg...
Executive Summary The core difference between the Ethiopian Bible and the King James Version is canonical: the Ethiopian tradition preserves a that routinely includes books such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, ...