Part of 10 Maccabees
10.5.1 Nature and Significance
To the extent that scholars have been able to speak of a “canon” of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, they have often highlighted its size, since it contains several books not found in other Christian canonical traditions (1.1.5).1 Among the books in the Ethiopian biblical tradition, the መቃብያን (Mäqabǝyan “Maccabees”) stand out as the …