The Ethiopian Bible. The Official Damascus Road Scholar Edition Published in July 2026.

The Groundbreaking 1,188-Page Illustrated "Gold Standard" Translation With Commentary and Living Digital Companion Maintained by the Editors

Did angels really take human wives...and father giants? Was the Book of Enoch hidden...or just lost for 1,000 years? Did King James really cut the Bible down to 66 books?

In 1773, a Scottish traveler named James Bruce returned from an intercontinental expedition with copies of a mysterious manuscript nobody in Europe had seen for a thousand years - the Book of Enoch, the ancient text Jude quoted by name in the New Testament and then lost to the West so completely that for sixteen centuries no complete copy was known to exist. It survived in one place, though: Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church holds the largest biblical canon in Christendom. Traditionally canonized as 81 books, it includes works not in the Protestant or Catholic Bibles, such as the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the three Books of Meqabyan, the Ethiopic Book of Clement, and the Sinodos of the apostles.

Usually a curiosity within university theology departments, the Ethiopian Bible most recently has captivated mainstream audiences worldwide as podcasters like Joe Rogan grapple with its implications today. Who were the Nephilim and the Watchers? Are we in the end of days?

To exploit the demand for an English translation, independent publishers hastily churned out incomplete and fraudulent versions, omitting or fabricating books they couldn't translate from Ge'ez, the ancient writing system from the Horn of Africa. Recognizing the burning need for a high-integrity translation, Damascus Road set out to create the first ever Scholar Edition of the Ethiopian Bible.

This edition leverages frontier large language models to bridge until scholars can complete an official translation. Included in this edition are a myriad of resources, including an overview of why the Bible has "gone viral" and a dispassionate scholarly analysis on the key areas of interest related to the Ethiopian Bible. This is a living edition - the editors maintain a digital companion to the printed canon accessible by QR code which includes the complete one hundred forty hour audiobook, up-to-date commentary, realtime corrections and revisions, and a book-by-book sources & canon table.

"But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." - James 1:5

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Publisher note: Buyer beware of fraudulent editions of the Ethiopian Bible for sale on online retailers. As of July 2026, the Damascus Road Scholar Edition is the only Ethiopian Bible on the market:

• Spanning over 1,000 pages that includes the actual books of the canon - full texts, not summaries, paraphrases, or padding
• That includes the real three Books of Meqabyan - the indigenous Ethiopian scriptures, not the Greek Books of Maccabees
• That distinguishes the canon from related texts instead of inflating the count - no invented "88 books"
• Built on named, verifiable scholarship - the American Standard Version (1901), Brenton's Septuagint, R.H. Charles, Horner, Schodde, Harden, and Cooper & Maclean, reproduced faithfully