The Protestant Bible has 66 books. The Catholic Bible has 73. The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible has 81. That gap of 8 to 15 books isn't filled with minor additions — it includes some of the most theologically rich texts in the ancient world.
Among the books in the Ethiopian canon that aren't in the Western Protestant Bible: The Book of Enoch. The Book of Jubilees. The Books of Meqabyan. The Book of Joseph ben Gurion. The Prayer of Manasseh. Additional Psalms. Portions of Ezra and Nehemiah that differ from the Western text.
Each of these additions fills gaps in the Western canon in interesting ways. The Book of Enoch explains the backstory of Genesis 6 and the flood. The Book of Jubilees provides a detailed alternative timeline for the events of Genesis and Exodus. The Books of Meqabyan give you the Ethiopian equivalent of the Maccabean martyrdom literature.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church didn't add these books arbitrarily. They received a biblical tradition that was already broader than what Rome would eventually approve, and they maintained that tradition through two millennia of relative isolation. While Western Christianity was narrowing its canon through a series of councils, the Ethiopian church was simply continuing to read what it had always read.
The question worth asking: if these books were considered inspired scripture by millions of Christians for two thousand years, what have Western readers been missing?
Our Ethiopian Bible bundle — the Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, and Books of Meqabyan in collector's hardcover editions — brings these missing texts together for the first time.