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FAQs

What is Jesus' name in the Ethiopian Bible? ›

The Amharic name for the name “Jesus” is the same as the Greek. It is “Iesous” when pronounced, Amharic speakers say it “Iyesus (ኢየሱስ)”.

The broader canon seems to have been created by Ethiopian scholars commenting on the Fetha Negest law code, which says that the canon contains 81 books, but only lists 73. The additional eight books were those presumed to be missing from the list.

Apart from this community, the Book of Enoch was excluded from both the formal canon of the Tanakh and the Septuagint and therefore, also from the writings known today as the Deuterocanon. The main reason for Jewish rejection of the book is that it is inconsistent with the teachings of the Torah.

Regarding the Person of Jesus Christ also there have been serious discussions in Ethiopia. But the Church holds to the view that He is God the Son in His incarnate state. Born of God the Father eternally as God the Son, He was born of the Virgin Mother as a real man.

Another, more generic Ethiopian word meaning "God" (including the deities of any other religion) is አምላክ (`amlak) which is descended from the Proto-Semitic term for "king" or "ruler." Igziabher is also used within the Rastafari movement as a name of Jah (God).

The Confession provided the rationale for the exclusion: 'The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings' (1.3).

According to tradition, Abba Garima wrote and illustrated the complete Gospels in a single day: God stopped the sun from setting until the Saint completed his work.

As I know it, the Ethiopian Orthodox have 81 books in the Bible they use, while Latin Rite Catholics have only 73 books in the Bible they use.

Who stole the Book of Enoch from Ethiopia? ›

It is believed that the Greek version was entirely translated and preserved in Gǝ'ǝz. Consequently, this book was not known in Europe until James Bruce, the Scottish explorer, took the manuscripts of Enoch from Ethiopia to England in 1773.

The Book of Enoch is an ancient text not considered canonical by most Christian and Jewish bodies. Reading the Book of Enoch is not a sin, but caution should be taken due to its flawed doctrines. The Bible does not endorse the Book of Enoch but is referenced in Jude 1:14-15.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Places More Emphasis on Fasting Than Other Christian Denominations. Fasting is an important component of all major Christian denominations. Ethiopian Christianity places a particularly heavy emphasis on fasting relative to the other churches.

Christianity was introduced to Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (called Tewahdo in Ethiopia) is one of the oldest organized Christian bodies in the world.

Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, Oxford.

Over thirty translations of the Bible in African languages use the word Mulungu to refer to the Father. As another example, Jesus Christ is referred to as mwana wa Mulungu ("child of Mulungu") in modern religious songs in Chichewa language (Malawi).

Ethiopia is mentioned variously in every major division of the Hebrew Bible and used interchangeably with Cush,¹³ and it was later identified with Nubia and Aksum. In its broader sense, the name Aethiopia should not be equated with Ethiopia of today which was designated in 1885.

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.