The Ethiopian Canon
Wall of Shame

Every edition we have checked

Scored against ten red flags. Higher is worse.

We buy these, count the books, and do the arithmetic. Each edition below is scored against the ten tests in our guide to spotting a fake Ethiopian Bible, which explains how to run every one of them yourself in a few minutes. Nothing here is an opinion about a publisher. Every mark is a fact about a book.

A cross means the flag is raised. A tick means we checked and it is clear. A dash means we have not checked yet, and we would rather show you the gap than fill it in with a guess.

9 of 10

50,000 Copies of What, Exactly?

Edward Jones · 539 pages · claims 88 books
  • ✗Book count
  • ✗Page count
  • ✗Digital padding
  • ✗Church Order
  • –Qalementos
  • ✗Formatting
  • ✗Author portrait
  • ✗Scholar claim
  • ✗Sources named
  • ✗OT base text
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Checked 24 August 2026, 1 point still unchecked.

7 of 10

271 Pages for the Whole Canon

Kevin J. Gregory · 271 pages · claims 88 books, 1,943 chapters
  • ✗Book count
  • ✗Page count
  • ✗Digital padding
  • –Church Order
  • ✗Qalementos
  • ✓Formatting
  • ✗Author portrait
  • ✗Scholar claim
  • ✗Sources named
  • –OT base text
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Checked 23 August 2026, 2 points still unchecked.

And ours, scored the same way. A checklist that never tests its own author is not a checklist, it is an advertisement. So our edition takes the same ten tests, and where it has gaps we print them.

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The Ethiopian Bible: The Tewahedo Canon in Modern English

Clear Text Editions · 742 pages · 81 books, 90 volumes
  • ✓Book count
  • ✓Page count
  • ✓Digital padding
  • ✓Church Order
  • ✓Qalementos
  • ✓Formatting
  • ✓Author portrait
  • ✓Scholar claim
  • ✓Sources named
  • ✓OT base text

Where ours falls short: Josippon is a documented reconstruction, not a translation from the Ge'ez. Enoch and Jubilees rest on R. H. Charles. Several Church Order books reach English through French and Latin intermediaries. The Didascalia has gaps inherited from its source manuscripts.

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