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Haile Selassie I

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974

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Jan 18, 2026
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When were books like Enoch and Jubilees accepted into the Ethiopian Orthodox canon?

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...

Jan 15, 2026
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What are the major modern translation projects for the Ethiopian Bible and their linguistic approaches?

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...

Jan 18, 2026
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Which Ethiopian languages currently have complete Bible translations and who produced them?

Multiple Ethiopian languages today have complete Bible translations, but the picture is fragmented: ancient Geʽez preserves a complete canonical Bible used liturgically, Amharic has had a complete Bib...

Jan 19, 2026

What are the major publishers and editions of the Amharic Bible and how do they differ in translation philosophy?

The Amharic Bible exists in several major editions published by the Ethiopian Bible Society (also called the Bible Society of Ethiopia), international Bible societies (Biblica/International Bible Soci...

Jan 18, 2026

What role did the Haile Selassie Bible commission play in fixing a standard Ethiopian biblical canon in the 20th century?

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...

Jan 12, 2026

What are the major scholarly debates about when and why the Ethiopian canon stabilized at ‘81 books’?

Scholars disagree about both the chronology and the mechanisms by which the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon assumed its distinctive count of eighty-one books: some emphasize a long, organic process ...