page_title: Orthodox Tewahedo
section_title: Biblical canon
hierarchical_section_title: Orthodox Tewahedo / Distinctive traits common to both / Biblical canon
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Ms. 3 Weddasé Māryām, Anqaṣa Berhān, Yewédeswā Malā’ekt, Mālk’ā Māryām, Malek’ā Eyasus Page 128 Project&#160;: Ethiopic Manuscripts Content Type&#160;: Manuscript
context_page_description: Orthodox Tewahedo is the common and historical name of two Oriental Orthodox churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea. These are the predominant Orthodox Christian denominations in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
  Until 1959, the Orthodox Tewahedo churches were administratively part of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The Orthodox Tewahedo church was granted autocephaly and its own Patriarch that year by Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria.
  Following the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church was made autocephalous by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and it officially separated from what was now the distinct Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
context_section_description: The Tewahedo Church Canon contains 81 books. This canon contains the books accepted by other Orthodox Christians.
  The Narrower Canon contains the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and I II III Meqabyan. (These are unrelated to the Greek I, II, and III Maccabees with which they are often confused.) The canonical Book of Enoch differs from the editions of the Ge'ez manuscripts in the British Museum and elsewhere (A-Q) used by foreign scholars (Old Testament Pseudepigrapha), for example in treatment of the Nephilim of Genesis 6. The current 81 book version was published in 1986, containing the same text as previously published in the Haile Selassie Version of the Bible, only with some minor modifications to the New Testament translation.
  Some sources speak of the Broader Canon, which has never been published as a single compilation but is said to include all of the Narrower Canon, as well as additional New Testament books said to have been used by the early church: two Books of the Covenant, four Books of Sinodos, an Epistle of Peter to Clement—also known as "Ethiopic Clement," and the Ethiopic Didascalia Apostolorum. These may not all bear close resemblance to works with similar titles known in the west. The Josippon, an eight-part Ethiopic version of the history of the Jewish people known as the Pseudo-Josephus, is considered part of the broader canon, though it would be considered an Old Testament work.
caption: Drawing of Mary, mother of Jesus 'with her beloved son' in pencil and ink, from a manuscript copy of the Weddāsē Māryām ("Encomium of Mary") circa 1875.
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