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.
Ethiopia Bible and KJV English Bible.Īlthough 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.
