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Reading the Ethiopian books in English
No complete, church-approved English translation of all 81 books exists yet. Most of the books a Protestant Bible leaves out can still be read in English, and seven of them are here.
Of the 73 books with text in this index, 3 are translated from Ethiopic (Ge’ez) and 70 from Greek. No direct Ge’ez translation of the others is here yet.
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Already in your Bible
In English Apocrypha editions
Harder to find
- 1 MaccabeesEthiopian Meqabyan, not the Greek books of Maccabees. Only a few English translations exist, mostly recent.
- 2 Maccabees and 3 MaccabeesAlso Meqabyan. English translations are few.
- Josephus son of GorionThe Ethiopic version of Yosippon, a medieval Hebrew history of the Jews. English versions of the Hebrew exist; the Ethiopic is hard to find.
Church order
The Sinodos (Sirate Tsion, Tizaz, Gitsew, Abtilis), the Book of the Covenant (1 and 2 Dominos), and Clement. English exists mainly in older scholarly editions and excerpts. Full translations are rare.
Ethiopian Bibles also carry 4 Baruch (the Paralipomena of Jeremiah) with Jeremiah. English translations exist in collections of early Jewish writings.