The Ethiopian Bible and Its Hidden World: Sacred Symbols, Biblical Mathematics, and the Ancient Structure of the Christian Faith

By Mary Rose

What if the most complete Christian Bible was never lost-only overlooked?

Among ancient Christian traditions, the Ethiopian Church preserves something unparalleled: an eighty-eight-book biblical canon maintained not as a historical curiosity, but as a continuous, living scriptural order. The Ethiopian Bible and Its Hidden World presents this canon not merely as an expanded list of texts, but as a coherent symbolic system-carefully structured, theologically integrated, and resistant to fragmentation.

This book argues that the Ethiopian Bible preserves an interpretive world largely absent from later Western Christianity. Here, books such as Enoch and Jubilees are not marginal echoes but foundational texts shaping cosmology, angelology, sacred time, and moral order. Scripture functions as architecture: numbers carry meaning, repetition signals coherence, and material symbols communicate covenantal realities. Theology is embedded not only in words, but in structure.

Drawing from Ethiopian tradition, Second Temple thought, and early Christian symbolic reasoning, this study reframes how biblical authority, canon formation, and interpretation can be understood. It challenges modern assumptions that separate symbolism from meaning, showing instead how symbolic order functions as theological substance.

Inside this volume, readers will encounter:

The logic behind the Ethiopian biblical canon and its historical preservation

The role of numbers, cycles, and sacred time in shaping meaning

Angelology and cosmology as central, not secondary, theological concerns

Material symbols-blood, oil, garments, space-as conveyors of doctrine

Canonical structure as a reflection of divine order

Written for scholars, theologians, clergy, and serious readers of Scripture, this book restores visibility to an ancient Christian imagination still intact-and critically relevant.

Read this book to understand Scripture as a structured theological world, not a scattered collection of texts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7JBM3KB
• ISBN13: 9798278927273
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"