When the Western church decided which books belonged in the Bible, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church wasn't consulted. And it wouldn't have agreed anyway.
The Ethiopian church traces its origins to the first century — according to tradition, to the Ethiopian eunuch baptized by Philip in Acts 8, and to the missionary work that followed. By the fourth century, Christianity was the official religion of the Aksumite Empire, one of the great powers of the ancient world. The Ethiopians received a biblical tradition that included texts the Western church would later exclude: the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Books of Meqabyan, and others.
When later councils in Rome and Carthage narrowed the Western canon, the Ethiopian church held its ground. Their Bible had 81 books. It still does.
This wasn't stubbornness. It was conviction. The Ethiopian church had its own ancient manuscript traditions, its own theological frameworks, and its own understanding of which texts were inspired. They didn't need Rome's permission to decide what was scripture.
The result is that texts lost everywhere else in the world survived in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch, in particular, exists in its complete form today only because the Ethiopian church kept it. The Ethiopic manuscripts became the primary source for every modern translation.
Our collection of Ethiopian-canon texts — the Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, and Books of Meqabyan — brings this preserved tradition to modern readers for the first time in a unified collector's set.