The 81 book Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Bible, including the deuterocanonicals, 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament, was published in 1986.
The five narrow canon Ethiopian deuterocanonical books comprise 1 Enoch (Henok different from the standard editions of Ge'ez manuscripts A~Q by foreign academics), Jubilees (Ge'ez: Mets'hafe Kufale) and I, II, and III Meqabyan (substantially different from I, II, and III Maccabees) those held canonical in common with Protestant and Catholic Christians), as the 5 narrow canon deuterocanonical books were published separately. It included the 66 books of the protocanon (i.e. AD 1962 in the Gregorian Calendar), and states that it was translated by the Bible Committee he convened between AD 19, "realizing that there ought to be a revision from the original Hebrew and Greek of the existing translation of the Bible". The preface by Emperor Haile Selassie I is dated "1955" (E.C.), and the 31st year of his reign (i.e. In 1962, a new Amharic translation from Ge'ez was printed, again with the patronage of the Emperor. Although Christianity became the state religion of Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the Bible was first translated into Ge'ez at about that time, only in the last two centuries have there appeared translations of the Bible into Amharic.
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