Volume I
The Law, Enoch, Jubilees and the Maccabees
Genesis to Deuteronomy, the Book of Enoch entire in one hundred and eight chapters, the Book of Jubilees, 1, 2 and 4 Maccabees, then Joshua to 2 Samuel.
744 pages
Éditions d’Aksoum
The Complete Ethiopian Bible
Eighty-eight books, as the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has kept them: the Book of Enoch entire, the Book of Jubilees, the Maccabees and the whole of the Old and New Testaments — texts the West set aside and Ge’ez alone preserved.
Status
The three English volumes are typeset and finished. They are not on sale yet — publication on Amazon is a matter of weeks. Nothing on this page is for sale today, and we would rather say so than take your money for a book you cannot hold.
Photographed: the French edition, already in print. The English volumes share the same binding, the same typesetting and the same ornaments.
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88
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2 337
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108
chapters of Enoch
Why this canon is different
Christianity reached Ethiopia at the beginning of the fourth century, before the councils that fixed the canons of the West. The Ethiopian Church formed its scriptures according to choices of its own, and then copied them by hand, without interruption, for more than a thousand years.
Several of these books survive complete in Ge’ez and nowhere else. The Book of Enoch, quoted by the epistle of Jude and then lost to the West for a millennium, exists entire only in the Ethiopian manuscripts — of the Greek there are fragments, of the Aramaic only shreds found at Qumran. The Book of Jubilees shares that fate. Without the Ethiopian copyists, these texts would simply have disappeared.
This edition gathers that corpus in English, established from translations in the public domain, arranged in the order of the Ethiopian canon. It is not an official liturgical translation and replaces no authorised text: it is an instrument of study and reading.
The three volumes
Volume II
Kings, the Psalms and the Wisdom Books
Kings and Chronicles, 1 and 2 Esdras, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, the Psalter entire, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Isaiah.
790 pages
Volume III
The Prophets, the Apocrypha and the New Testament
Jeremiah and Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel with its Greek portions, the twelve minor prophets, Tobit, Susanna, Psalm 151, 3 Maccabees, Judith, 2 Enoch, and the New Testament entire.
803 pages
Set in a single column, Garamond 10.5, with running heads and Ethiopian ornaments. The stichs of Hebrew poetry are given on distinct lines, as in scholarly editions.
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Available today — in French
The French edition is already published
The same eighty-eight books, the same typesetting, the same ornaments — in French. If you read French, you do not have to wait for the English volumes.
- Free sample — the Book of the Watchers · 19 chapters of Enoch, PDF, in French. No email required.
- Complete digital edition — 9,99 € · PDF and EPUB, 2 082 pages, immediate download, in French.