Explores the unique books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon that are not found in Western Bibles. This section features deep dives, historical context, and insights into sacred texts like the Book of Enoch (Henok), the Book of Jubilees (Kufale), and the Books of Meqabyan
The Books of Meqabyan: Ethiopia’s Forgotten Heroes of Faith Three Ge’ez books, a different Maccabean tradition, and a fierce theology of faithfulness, repentance, and resurrection In the opening movement of 1 Meqabyan, an idol-worshiping king demands what no ruler has the right to claim. Three brothers – Abya, Sila, and Fentos – refuse to bow….
Somewhere on the northern border of ancient Israel stands Mount Hermon, its summit snow-capped even in the desert heat. Today it’s a hiking destination and a ski resort. In the Second Temple period, Jewish readers told a very different story about it: that this was the mountain where two hundred angels once stood in a…
Most of the world runs on a calendar that drifts. The Gregorian system adds leap days every four years to approximate the solar year, and still falls short of precision by 11 minutes and 14 seconds annually. But the Book of Jubilees describes an alternative: a perfect 364-day year of 52 weeks, divided into four…
The Books of Meqabyan are among the least-known scriptures in the world. Preserved for more than a millennium in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, they contain stories of martyrdom, royal perseverance, and fierce resistance to apostasy — and they have virtually no presence in English-language scholarship or popular religious literature. Most people who have never…
The Book of Jubilees is one of the most underread texts in biblical history. It retells the entire story of Genesis — and part of Exodus — in granular, unapologetic detail, filling gaps the Hebrew Bible leaves open and insisting on a calendar the rest of the world rejected. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has kept…