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The preservation of yet one more book in its entity, namely, the Ascension of Isaiah, is to be remembered to the credit of the Ethiopic Church.īut books, which should be considered for higher education and could be prepared carefully in order to suit modern thinking, are the following.ġ.

Division) otherwise known as the Little Genesis has also been preserved entire only in the Ethiopic version.

The whole Christendom and whole-learned world owes a debt of gratitude to the church of Ethiopia for the preservation of those documents.Īmong these books is the book of Enoch which throws so much light on Jewish thought on various points during the centuries immediately preceding the Christian era. In the international Bible studies there are certain books belonging to the class usually designated pseudepigraphic. It includes the book of Enoch, Baruch, and the third and fourth Esdras. The Ethiopic version of the Old and New Testament was made from the Septuagint. The Book of Josephas the Son of Bengorion The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to 81.Ģ6. As a whole, books written in the Geez language and on parchment are numerous. The canon of the Ethiopic Bible differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of any other churches. We receive the one and other with equal veneration. But God’s word is not contained only in them, there is an unwritten word of God also, which we call apostolic tradition. The Sacred Scriptures are the written word of God who is the author of the Old and New Testaments containing nothing but perfect truth in faith and morals. The word of God is not contained in the Bible alone, it is to be found in tradition as well. The Holy Scriptures are one of the two great foundations of the faith and here is what our church holds and teaches concerning it.