First Book of Ethiopian Maccabees: with additional commentary

The Ethiopian Books of Maccabees (Meqabyan) remain elusive to much of western scholarship. Its composition stands in stark contrast to the more familiar editions of Maccabees found in contemporary Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, and therefore, it has gained little notoriety within western ecclesiastical circles. For its part, the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church had guarded these sacred texts and retained them in both the original Ge'ez and Amharic tongues. They have never before translated them int...