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Church">Christianity</a> became the <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">state religion</a> of Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> was first translated into <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez">Ge'ez</a> at about that time, only in the last two centuries have there appeared translations of the Bible into Amharic. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Abu_Rumi_translation">Abu Rumi translation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Abu Rumi translation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first translation of the Bible into <a href="/wiki/Amharic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Amharic language">Amharic</a> was by <a href="/wiki/Abu_Rumi" title="Abu Rumi">Abu Rumi</a> in the early 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the opinion of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Ullendorff" title="Edward Ullendorff">Edward Ullendorff</a>, "The hisouis <a href="/wiki/Asselin_de_Cherville" class="mw-redirect" title="Asselin de Cherville">Asselin de Cherville</a>, possessed a manuscript containing a complete translation of the Bible into Amharic, created by the mutual efforts of the Consul and Abu Rumi." As Ullendorff relates, for ten years "every Tuesday and Saturday his de Cherville's door was shut to all visitors when he read with 'my Abyssinian, slowly and with the utmost attention, every verse of the Sacred Volume, in the Arabic Version which we were able to translate.' But we are not told from which Arabic version the rendering was made."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Where the Arabic words were "abstruse, difficult, or foreign", de Cherville then consulted "the Hebrew Original, the Syriac Version, or the Septuagint" for clarification. </p><p>William Jowett purchased de Cherville's manuscript, consisting of 9,539 pages written in "the fine hand" of Abu Rumi for £1,250, which he then presented for review to Professor <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lee_(linguist)" title="Samuel Lee (linguist)">Samuel Lee</a>, and the final manuscript was printed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pell_Platt" title="Thomas Pell Platt">Thomas Pell Platt</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in increasing portions: the four Gospels in 1824, the entire New Testament in 1829, and the complete Bible in 1840. This translation, "with some changes and amendments, held sway until the Emperor Haile Selassie I ordered a new translation", which was published in 1960/61.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_Haile_Selassie_I_Bible_(1935)"><span id="First_Haile_Selassie_I_Bible_.281935.29"></span>First Haile Selassie I Bible (1935)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First Haile Selassie I Bible (1935)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A new translation was underway, under the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Haile_Selassie_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Haile Selassie I">Haile Selassie I</a>'s patronage, when the Italian army invaded. This manuscript was later sent to Britain and printed, but most of the copies were destroyed in a fire during the bombing of London.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This translation is sometimes known as the "Buxton" translation, because a British missionary named <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Buxton_(missionary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfred Buxton (missionary) (page does not exist)">Alfred Buxton</a> (1891–1940)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was instrumental in sending the manuscript from occupied Ethiopia to Britain. This same basic translation, with some changes, was later printed in the USA, with funds raised by Rev. <a href="/wiki/Donald_Barnhouse" title="Donald Barnhouse">Donald Barnhouse</a>. After it was printed,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this translation (sometimes referred to as the "Barnhouse New Testament") was found to contain a serious error in Rev. 19:10 & 22:9 (an angel commanding John to worship him, rather than prohibiting John to worship him), so most copies were destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Haile_Selassie_I_Bible_(1962)"><span id="New_Haile_Selassie_I_Bible_.281962.29"></span>New Haile Selassie I Bible (1962)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: New Haile Selassie I Bible (1962)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1962, a new Amharic translation from Ge'ez was printed, again with the patronage of the Emperor. The preface by Emperor Haile Selassie I is dated "1955" (<a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian Calendar">E.C.</a>), and the 31st year of his reign (i.e. AD 1962 in the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregorian Calendar">Gregorian Calendar</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and states that it was translated by the Bible Committee he convened between AD 1947 and 1952, "realizing that there ought to be a revision from the original Hebrew and Greek of the existing translation of the Bible".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It included the 66 books of the <a href="/wiki/Protocanon" class="mw-redirect" title="Protocanon">protocanon</a> (i.e. those held canonical in common with Protestant and Catholic Christians), as the 5 narrow canon <a href="/wiki/Deuterocanonical" class="mw-redirect" title="Deuterocanonical">deuterocanonical</a> books were published separately. The five narrow canon Ethiopian deuterocanonical books comprise <a href="/wiki/1_Enoch" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Enoch">1 Enoch</a> (<i>Henok</i>; different from the standard editions of Ge'ez manuscripts A~Q by foreign academics), <a href="/wiki/Jubilees" class="mw-redirect" title="Jubilees">Jubilees</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez">Ge'ez</a>: <i>Mets'hafe Kufale</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Meqabyan" title="Meqabyan">I, II, and III Meqabyan</a> (completely different from <a href="/wiki/1_Maccabees" title="1 Maccabees">I</a>, <a href="/wiki/2_Maccabees" title="2 Maccabees">II</a>, and <a href="/wiki/3_Maccabees" title="3 Maccabees">III Maccabees</a>) <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 81 book <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church</a> Bible, including the deuterocanonicals, 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament, was published in 1986. This version incorporates a few minor changes or corrections to the 1962 Amharic text of the New Testament, but the text of the Old Testament and Deuterocanon are identical to those previously published under Haile Selassie I. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="UBS_Versions_(1987,_2005)"><span id="UBS_Versions_.281987.2C_2005.29"></span>UBS Versions (1987, 2005)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: UBS Versions (1987, 2005)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under the Bible Society of Ethiopia (a member of the <a href="/wiki/United_Bible_Societies" title="United Bible Societies">United Bible Societies</a>), a new translation was printed in 1987, translated directly from <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>. A revised version of this appeared in 2005. These versions contain only the 66 books of the Protestant canon, and they have not been widely embraced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="IBS_Version_(2001)"><span id="IBS_Version_.282001.29"></span>IBS Version (2001)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: IBS Version (2001)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Living_Bibles_International" title="Living Bibles International">Living Bibles International</a> produced a New Testament in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the 1992 merger of LBI with IBS, the <a href="/wiki/International_Bible_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="International Bible Society">International Bible Society</a> produced a complete Bible in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is a translation from the English NIV, or is at least very heavily reliant upon it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biblica_Version_(2001)"><span id="Biblica_Version_.282001.29"></span>Biblica Version (2001)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Biblica Version (2001)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Biblica translation of the Bible is for the Amharic language, which is primarily used in Ethiopia. This translation uses an informal language style and applies a meaning-based translation philosophy. It is translated from the biblical languages. The Old Testament was completed in 2001 and the New Testament in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_World_Translation_of_Holy_Scriptures">New World Translation of Holy Scriptures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: New World Translation of Holy Scriptures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Watch_Tower_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Watch Tower Society">Watch Tower Society</a> produced an Amharic translation of <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> <i>New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Millennium_Amharic_Bible">Millennium Amharic Bible</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Millennium Amharic Bible"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the millennium celebration on the <a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a>, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Bible Society produced a new translation.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This translation differed from recent Amharic translations in that the translators generally followed the Greek <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a> (LXX) translation for the Old Testament and the Ge'ez for both the Old and the New. It was warmly welcomed by the Orthodox, but not by Protestants, both sides misunderstanding some points of history and the Biblical canon.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Tewahedo_biblical_canon" title="Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon">Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=10" 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.reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/William_Jowett" title="William Jowett">William Jowett</a>, <i>Christian Researches in the Mediterranean from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society</i> (London, 1822), pp. 171-229.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ullendorff, <i>Ethiopian and the Bible</i>, p. 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation 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F. Matthew. 1956. The Revision of the Amharic Bible. <i>The Bible Translator</i> 7.2: 72-76 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ubs-translations.org/tbt/1956/02/TBT195602.html?seq=26">online version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Buxton died in the London bombing in 1940. <i>Alfred Buxton of Abyssinia and Congo</i> by Norman Grubb, with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Caldecote. Published 1942 by Lutterworth.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120315081852/http://www.good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=81">"Good Amharic Books | Welcome!"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=81">the original</a> on 2012-03-15<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-03-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Good+Amharic+Books+%26%23124%3B+Welcome%21&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgood-amharic-books.com%2Fonebook.php%3FbookID%3D81&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABible+translations+into+Amharic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brian Fargher, <i>The Origins of the New Churches Movement in Southern Ethiopia, 1927-1944; Studies of Religion in Africa, 16</i> (Leiden: Brill, 1966), p. 291.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bible.org/foreign/amharic/">Bible.org: The Haile Selassie Amharic Bible</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ethiobible.org/">Lapsley/Brooks Digitalization project</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101225234633/http://ethiobible.org/">Archived</a> 2010-12-25 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Ullendorf misreads this as AD 1955 (<i>Ethiopia and the Bible</i>, p. 66)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Statement_on_the_Revised_Amharic_Bible" class="extiw" title="s:Statement on the Revised Amharic Bible">s:Statement on the Revised Amharic Bible</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ullendorff comments "I have not made a systematic comparative study of the Abu Rumi and Emperor translations, but from desultory reading of both versions the following picture seems to emerge: I can find no evidence that the new recension has been subjected to any perceptible collation with the Hebrew and Greek originals. The Amharic has certainly been modernized and updated; the order of words in particular has been brought into conformity with contemporary stylistic tastes in Amharic. The use of Abu Rumi's text can clearly be discerned, even where the changes that have been introduced are by no means negligible." (<i>Ethiopia and the Bible</i>, p. 67)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110711110904/http://www.good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=81">"1962 Amharic Bible at Good Amharic Books"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=81">the original</a> on 2011-07-11<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-07-09</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=1962+Amharic+Bible+at+Good+Amharic+Books&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.good-amharic-books.com%2Fonebook.php%3FbookID%3D81&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABible+translations+into+Amharic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.good-amharic-books.com/library?id=84">Electronic version of 1985 New Testament</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibs.org/bibles/amharic/index.php">Amharic Bible (c) International Bible Society, Amharic (2001) Index</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://st-takla.org/Bibles/Holy-Bible-Amharic.html">"Amharic Bible"</a>. <i>Coptic Orthodox Church Heritage</i>. The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 March</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Coptic+Orthodox+Church+Heritage&rft.atitle=Amharic+Bible&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fst-takla.org%2FBibles%2FHoly-Bible-Amharic.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABible+translations+into+Amharic" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/?contentLanguageFilter=am">Online version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bruk A. Asale. 2014. A millennium translation based on the Ge'ez and LXX: A new Bible translation in the Ethiopian church and its controversy. <i>The Bible Translator</i> 65(1): 49-73.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bruk A. Asale. 2014. A millennium translation based on the Ge'ez and LXX: A new Bible translation in the Ethiopian church and its controversy. <i>The Bible Translator</i> 65(1): 49-73.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bible_translations_into_Amharic&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110711111108/http://good-amharic-books.com/onebook.php?bookID=377">An 1886 Amharic translation of the Old Testament</a> (protocanon only) - reprinted by E.O. 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