The Ethiopian canon, translated for readers
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserved a wider Bible than the one most of the world reads. We publish it in modern European languages, with every source named.
A list of books that was never narrowed
Not a conspiracy. A different history, well documented and open to anyone who wants to check it.
A church outside the empire
The kingdom of Aksum adopted Christianity around the year 330, before many of the councils that shaped the Western list of books. Its church kept its own canon and never had to align it with Rome or with the Reformation.
Quoted, then not printed
The New Testament quotes the Book of Enoch by name. In Ethiopia that book stayed inside the Bible. In the West it drifted out of the printed editions and survived mainly in Geʽez manuscripts.
Scattered across scholarly volumes
Most of these texts are in the public domain, but they sit in nineteenth century anthologies, in old typefaces, wrapped in an academic apparatus. Almost nowhere are they set as one readable volume together with the Bible itself.
What is in which Bible
| Ksiąg | Henoch | Jubileusze | Meqabyan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protestant Bible | 66 | — | — | — |
| Catholic Bible | 73 | — | — | — |
| Ethiopian canon (AKSUM) | 87 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
How many books are genuinely new to you depends on the edition you already own, so we say it plainly instead of quoting one number to everyone. Every title is listed on the page of each edition.
Choose your language
Each edition is prepared separately, from sources in that language. None of them is a machine translation of another.