Almost by accident, I found an English translation of some of the Ethiopian Bible books not considered canonical by other Churches in a used book store.
Or did I?
It turned out that my prize volume, "Books of the Ethiopian Bible: Missing from the Protestant Canon. Ethiopian Church", was even stranger than I expected.
I almost immidiately noticed that the name of God was rendered "Jah". Then, I noticed that at least one of the texts seem to be translated into some kind of Pidgin English. Oookay. So I checked the publisher, Lushena Books in Illinois, United States. Yepp, it´s an Afro-centrist outlet of some kind.
In other words: the book isn´t published by supporters of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, but by Rastafarians!
Not that I mind. The work was pretty cheap and I looked into Rastafarianism before. As opposed to, say, Pastafarianism. So I might consider taking a second look at it, Jah willing.
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