Ethiopian Bible Vs Hebrew Bible Jun 2026

For a Jewish scholar, the Ethiopian Old Testament contains heretical and pseudepigraphal forgeries. For an Ethiopian Christian, the Hebrew Bible is a truncated, rabbinic corruption of a larger, more pristine revelation that survived only in the highlands of Aksum.

In passages like Isaiah 7:14 (the “virgin/young woman” prophecy), the Ethiopian Bible follows the Septuagint’s parthenos (virgin), while the Hebrew Bible has almah (young woman). This creates dramatically different messianic readings. ethiopian bible vs hebrew bible