Documenting the Ethiopian canon and holding publishers accountable.
Gabe Stanek noticed that our Enoch says “This is the Son of Man” where the Ge'ez reads “You are.” He was right. What R.H. Charles changed in 1912, why it reached our edition, and what we are correcting.
Read moreEnoch, Jubilees, three books of Meqabyan and eight Books of Church Order are all in it. What the count of 81 means, where the Maccabees label comes from, and how an English edition gets made.
Read moreTuriel appears three times in one list of twenty-one angels, and Azazel twice. It is not a misprint. It is what happens to a proper name that crosses Aramaic, Greek and Ge'ez before anyone writes it in English.
Read moreForty-two in one edition, a hundred and eight in another. Neither set was written by the author: the 42 come from the Ethiopian commentary tradition, the 108 from a nineteenth-century scholar. Where each came from, and how to read a reference in either.
Read moreIn ours, eleven of ninety volumes. Most of the canon reaches English through Greek, and that is how these editions get built. The full breakdown, and the source-note test for any other edition.
Read moreNeither. Both descend from lost Hebrew originals. But one is what the apostles quoted, it is the parent of the Ethiopian Bible, and the two do not always say the same thing. The differences, verse by verse.
Read moreNot the Council of Nicaea. The canon formed over four centuries of community decisions, criteria applied flexibly, and one letter in 367 CE. And one church never narrowed its canon at all.
Read moreParts of it, yes, by named scholars whose work you can check. What does not exist is a complete Ethiopian Bible in English translated directly from Ge’ez and authorized by the Church. That distinction explains most of what goes wrong on Amazon.
Read moreThere is no 88-book Ethiopian canon. So why does every listing say 88? Shared errors are how textual critics prove one manuscript was copied from another. The method works on Amazon listings too.
Read moreA hardcover advertising all 88 books of a 1.2 million word canon, in 271 pages. The type is readable, which is the problem. No Esther, no Ezra, and Genesis 1:1 rewritten.
Read moreA $48.99 edition in 17-point type lists 22 texts and ends on page 523. No Genesis, no Psalms, no Gospels. We read the table of contents.
Read moreIn most of Christianity, the Watchers of Enoch are fallen angels. In the one church that never stopped reading Enoch as scripture, they are the sons of Seth, and that reading is the key to the whole canon.
Read moreNo complete English translation of the Ethiopian Josippon exists. So we built one from three centuries of scholarship and a doctoral dissertation.
Read moreThe red flags that separate real editions from low-effort scams. Read this before you click Buy Now.
Read moreAmazon's bestselling Ethiopian Bible claims 88 books in 539 pages. The entire Ethiopian-unique section runs 37 pages.
Read moreThe books that make the Ethiopian canon the Ethiopian canon, and what most English editions leave out.
Read moreHow a warning about fraudulent Ethiopian Bibles inspired us to build a genuine edition.
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