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Oriental Orthodox Church denomination of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is substantially larger and compositionally different from the Protestant, Catholic, and most Orthodox canons: it commonly totals and includes w...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s official materials and Ethiopian Christian cultural sources affirm that Jesus was crucified and that the Cross is central to salvation—Ethiopian liturgy, feast...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is substantially larger and differently composed than the Roman Catholic canon: , including the Hebrew protocanon, the Catholic deuterocanonical...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon differs markedly from the King James Version in : the Ethiopian tradition uses an 81–88 book Ge'ez canon that includes works like 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and Meqabyan,...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church traditionally counts an 81‑book Bible made up of 46 Old Testament and 35 New Testament books, a total asserted repeatedly in church materials and secondary schol...
The analyses provided converge on a clear distinction: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is , and it is historically tied to the Ge'ez language and ancient manuscript traditions....
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves full Geʽez texts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees and treats them as canonical—unlike most Western traditions where they are classed as pseudepigrapha or apocry...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon includes a substantial number of books that are not part of the Protestant King James Version (KJV); these extra books range from widely known d...
The core claim is that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition differs theologically from other Christian traditions largely because its biblical canon is larger and because its interpretive traditi...
The Ethiopian (Ethiopic or Tewahedo) Bible was transmitted primarily in Geʽez, with significant later use and modern translations into Amharic and other languages; the Ethiopic canon runs to about 81 ...
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 Ethiopian biblical canon developed through a long, layered process rooted in early translations from Greek (the Septuagint tradition) and a distinctive Ethiopian reception that preserved Jewish ps...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s New Testament includes the standard 27 Christian books plus additional works that other traditions do not canonize, giving a New Testament count often reported...
The Ethiopian canon uniquely preserves two ancient Jewish works—1 Enoch and Jubilees—that shaped early Jewish and Christian imaginations about angels, judgment, sacred time, and law; 1 Enoch foregroun...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon is substantially larger on the Old Testament side than Catholic (73 books) and Protestant (66 books) canons, including texts such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees and additio...
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...
Several overlapping modern projects aim to render Ethiopia’s complex biblical corpus—rooted in Geʽez and large Amharic- and vernacular-language populations—into accessible languages; these efforts ran...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Bible contains a broader and different set of books than standard Protestant and Catholic canons, repeatedly named in the sources as including 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the th...
The core differences claimed are that the Ethiopian (Ge'ez) Old Testament uses a , containing many additional books such as 1–2 Enoch, Jubilees, and Meqabyan, and that its (Ge'ez, early medieval trans...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Bible includes a set of books not found in the Catholic canon, most notably , producing a larger corpus (commonly 81 books) than the Catholic Bible (around 72 ...