Old Ethiopian Bible

Excerpt from Genesis, ancient Ethiopian

The Old Ethiopian Bible in the Old Ethiopian language is one of the ancient Bible translations into oriental languages .

Text development

A Bible in the ancient Ethiopian language and a forerunner of the Ethiopian script , probably without any vowel names, was created soon after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century. Different revisions from the 13th to 17th centuries subjected the Ethiopian Bible to Hebrew , Syrian and Coptic influences. Editorial milestones were the Roman "Editio Princeps" (1548) and the London edition by Thomas P. Platt (1830).

See also

• Bible canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Web links

• The Apocalypse of Ezra
• Ethiopian Orthodox Canon List, AT and NT
• Alvan Codex

Individual evidence