Link: gbgm-umc.org (extern) (Archiv-Version vom 14.06.2006)Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testament
Biblical scrolls
The EthiopianOrthodox church has the largest canon, which comes in two forms-- a narrower and a widercanon.
The narrower Old Testament canon includes the books of the Hebrew Bible,all of the Apocrypha, and "Jubilees (317K download), 1 Enoch (197K download), and Josephben Gurion's (Josippon's) medieval history of the Jews and other nations."1
Old Testament
(Ethiopic Narrower Canon)
1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Enoch
7.Jubilees
8. Joshua
9. Judges
10. Ruth
11. 1 Samuel
12. 2Samuel
13. 1 Kings
14. 2 Kings
15. 1 Chronicles
16. 2 Chronicles
17. Ezra
18. Nehemiah
19. 3rd Ezra
20. 4rth Ezra
21. Tobit
22. Judith
23. Esther
(includes additions to Esther)
24. 1Macabees
25. 2 Macabees
26. 3 Macabees
27. Job
28. Psalms
(+ Psalm 151)
29. Proverbs
(Proverbs 1-24)
30. Täagsas
(Proverbs 25-31)
31. Wisdom of Solomon
32. Ecclesiastes
33. Song ofSolomon
34. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
35. Isaiah
36. Jeremiah
37.Baruch
(includes Letter of Jeremiah)
38. Lamentations
39. Ezekiel
40. Daniel
41. Hosea
42. Amos
43. Micah
44. Joel
45.Obadiah
46. Jonah
47. Nahum
48. Habakkuk
49. Zephaniah
50.Haggai
51. Zecariah
52. Malachi
Adapted from Hans Peter Rüger, "TheExtent of the Old Testament Canon," The Bible Translator 40 (1989), pp. 301-303; andBruce Metzger, "Bible," Oxford Companion to the Bible, (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1993), p. 79. Metzger adds one more book to the list above: Joseph ben Gurion's(Josippon's) medieval history of the Jews and other nations. See also: The Biblical CanonOf The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today.
For Further Study
Chart:Comparison of the Roman Catholic and Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testaments
OrientalOrthodox Churches on the Internet
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* Oriental OrthodoxChurches. A site with extensive information on the Armenian Orthodox Church, AlexandrianCoptic Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Indian Orthodox Church, and AnthiocianSyrian Orthodox Church
* Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt
* TheEthiopian Orthodox Church
* The Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church
* TheSyrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
See Also: The Canon