The largest Biblical Canon

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The largest Canon of any Christian denomination is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, a branch of Oriental Orthodoxy. This is the official list. Also there are many writings outside of the actual canon which the church recommends for reading. I think it is interesting they consider Josippon by Josephus as scripture. Some other books I’ve never heard of though I think some are just foreign names to what we refer to books we do know. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

A. The Holy Books of the Old Testament
  1. Genesis
  2. Exodus
  3. Leviticus
  4. Numbers
  5. Deuteronomy
  6. Joshua
  7. Judges
  8. Ruth
  9. I and II Samuel
  10. I and II Kings
  11. I Chronicles
  12. II Chronicles
  13. Jublee
  14. Enoch
  15. Ezra and Nehemia
  16. Ezra (2nd) and Ezra Sutuel
  17. Tobit
  18. Judith
  19. Esther
  20. I Maccabees
  21. II and III Maccabees
  22. Job
  23. Psalms
  24. Proverbs
  25. Tegsats (Reproof)
  26. Metsihafe Tibeb (the books of wisdom)
  27. Ecclesiastes
  28. The Song of Songs
  29. Isaiah
  30. Jeremiah
  31. Ezekiel
  32. Daniel
  33. Hosea
  34. Amos
  35. Micah
  36. Joel
  37. Obadiah
  38. Jonah
  39. Nahum
  40. Habakkuk
  41. Zephaniah
  42. Haggai
  43. Zechariah
  44. Malachi
  45. Book of Joshua the son of Sirac
  46. The Book of Josephas the Son of Bengorion
B. The holy books of the New Testament
  1. Matthew
  2. Mark
  3. Luke
  4. John
  5. The Acts
  6. Romans
  7. I Corinthians
  8. II Corinthians
  9. Galatians
  10. Ephesians
  11. Philippians
  12. Colossians
  13. I Thessalonians
  14. II Thessalonians
  15. I Timothy
  16. II Timothy
  17. Titus
  18. Philemon
  19. Hebrews
  20. I Peter
  21. II Peter
  22. I John
  23. II John
  24. III John
  25. James
  26. Jude
  27. Revelation
  28. Sirate Tsion (the book of order)
  29. Tizaz (the book of Herald)
  30. Gitsew
  31. Abtilis
  32. The I book of Dominos
  33. The II book of Dominos
  34. The book of Clement
  35. Didascalia
 
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But maybe we should get back on topic.
 
Lol funny. I just thought it was interesting how many books they accept.
 
As soon as I saw the title, I said “Ethiopian Orthodox, isn’t it”?
 
Please forgive me if I’m seeing this incorrectly, but am I correct in understanding:
  • The books canonized by the Catholic Church as inspired Scripture are indeed that, inspired Scripture.
  • But there could be other books, such as those the Tewahedo Church accepts, that could also be inspired, very possibly are, but we cannot be sure of it, and “possibly/probably inspired” isn’t sufficient certainty to justify including such books in the canon of inspired scripture.
 
Within each denomination with differing canon, each believes that it is God’s will that they have the canon they have, and that God ensured that no inspired books were wrongly included or left out. It’s a question of which denomination is correct that is brought up in debates in apologetics. From a Catholic perspective, the Biblical canon the Church has is undoubtedly complete. That’s not to say the “additional” books, if you will, are no good at all to read. Just that they aren’t what God willed to be part of the Bible, again from our Catholic perspective.
 
Yah. Actually I believe Trent actually came across this. There was a question as to either officially condemn or silently pass over the additional Esdras and Maccabeees the Orthodox accept to varying degrees but the Council voted quite unanimously to pass over the question of them silently.
In theory this means they could be inspired but the Church has not come to that conclusion but technically it could in the future.

In the annotations of the pre Challoner Douay Rheims, there was a section on this by Cardinal Allen:

True it is that some of these books … were sometimes doubted of by some Catholics, and called Apocrypha, in that sense as the word properly signifieth hidden, or not apparent. So St. Jerome (in his prologue before the Latin Bible) calleth divers books Apocryphal, being not so evident, whether they were Divine Scripture, because they were not in the Jews’ Canon, nor at first in the Church’s Canon, but were never rejected as false or erroneous. In which sense the Prayers of Manasses, the third book of Esdras, and the third of Machabees are yet called Apocryphal. As for the fourth of Esdras, and the fourth of Machabees there is more doubt."
 
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