Crucially, Most existing English PDFs are partial, unauthorized compilations, or translated from secondary sources. 2. Unique Books in the Ethiopian Canon The Ethiopian Bible includes the entire Protestant Old and New Testaments, plus the Catholic Deuterocanon, plus several unique texts:
1. Overview The "Ethiopian Bible" commonly refers to the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC). It is distinct from Protestant, Catholic, or even other Orthodox canons because it is written in Ge’ez (an ancient liturgical language) and contains 81 books (some sources say 84, depending on the counting of sub-books). This is more than the 66 books of the Protestant Bible.