For centuries, the Western world has operated under the assumption that the Bible is a fixed collection—a tidy library of 66 books (Protestant canon) or 73 books (Catholic canon). However, deep in the highlands of East Africa, an ancient and unbroken Christian tradition tells a very different story.

Consequently, the Ethiopian Bible preserved texts that were considered "apocryphal" or "pseudepigraphical" by the rest of the world. While the standard Protestant Bible has 66 books, the Ethiopian canon ranges between , depending on how you count subdivisions (e.g., the 22 books of the Meqabyan and the 8 books of Clement).

The Ethiopian Old Testament is significantly larger. It includes the standard books plus: