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2. Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon - Wikipedia

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   The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. At 81 books, it is the largest and most diverse biblical canon in traditional Christendom.

3. Garima Gospels - Wikipedia

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   Monastic tradition ascribes the gospel books to Saint Abba Garima, said to have arrived in Ethiopia in 494. [3] Abba Garima is one of the Nine Saints traditionally said to have come from Rome, and to have Christianized the rural populations of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum in the sixth century; and the monks regard the Gospels less as significant antiquities than as sacred relics of ...

4. Ethiopian manuscript collections - Wikipedia

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   Parchment (berānnā) was used for Ethiopian manuscripts from the time of the Four Gospel books of Abbā Garimā, generally known as the Garima Gospels, preserved in the Abba Garima Monastery. These gospels are thought to be the oldest surviving Christian illuminated manuscripts, with their dating established by C-14 analysis. [1]

5. Bible translations into Geʽez - Wikipedia

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   Bible translations into Geʽez, an ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiopian branch, date back to the 6th century at least, making them one of the world's oldest Bible translations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Translations of the Bible in Ge'ez , in a predecessor of the Ge'ez script which did not possess vowels, were created between the 5th and 7th ...

6. Meqabyan - Wikipedia

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   The Third Book of Ethiopian Maccabees is the shortest of the three books, containing 10 chapters. At times, within the liturgical practices of the Ethiopian Church, the 2nd and 3rd Books of Meqabyan are collapsed to form a single text. [ 17 ]

7. Christianity in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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   The Syriac Christian missions also served as permanent centers of Christian learning in which Syriac speaking monks finally began to translate the Bible and other religious texts from Greek and Aramaic into Ethiopic so that their Ethiopian converts could actually read Scripture. These translations were vital to the spread of Christianity, no ...