The Accepted Temple Bible Canon

THE HOLY SCRIPTURE’S AND THE BIBLE CANON

Now in regards to the Holy Scriptures and the Bible Canon the Yahshuah Temple website, subscribe to the traditional Canon accepted by the Oriental Coptic Orthodox & Ethiopian Tawahedo Churches.  We also adhere strictly to the principle of divine scripture, as taught and practice through the Ethiopian faith, e.g.

“The word of God is not contained in the Bible alone,
it is to be found in tradition as well”.  

Therefore in line with this faith we accept the official books accepted as canonical within the Ethiopian Bible.  This canon includes and adds an extra 25 books, to the 66 books of the English KJV Bible Canon.

The canon of the Ethiopic Bible differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of not only the KJV, but that of any other church, within Christianity. As a whole these books have been preserved and written in the Geez language and on parchment. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to eighty one. Interestingly also is the fact that many of the Bible books and literary material, lost to the European and Asian bible canon and libraries, have been preserved only by and through the Ethiopian Church, into our modern age, by the Grace of Yah.

The Premise

It should be noted here also that although we accept the Ethiopian Canon as our own, this in know way is intended to detract from, or criticize any other bible canon of any Christian nation.  We do so only in the spirit, simply that we are Ethiopian and with the conviction that all Bibles canon’s are acceptable, as clarified and confirmed by the Emperor himself when he told us that;

“We in Ethiopia have one of the oldest versions of the bible,
but however old the version may be, in whatever language it might be written, the Word remains one and the same. It transcends all boundaries of empires and all conceptions of race. It is eternal.”

(Words of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Sellassie I, of Ethiopia)

Bible Canon – List of Book’s

Below is table & list of the 81 books of the Ethiopian Canon, alongside the English KJV canon and the Roman Catholic Canon, for your Reference, please visit our Temple library, to access and download, where possible some of these Books not available through the KJV Bible.

The Bible Canon of three Great Christian Nations
The official Ethiopian Bible Canon Books are those accepted by The Temple of Yahshuah.