Selam smiled, remembering Father Gebre’s final words: "Your world changes its Bible every few centuries. Ours has been the same since the time of Menelik I, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. We are not the ones who forgot."
The book was the Garima Gospel, said to have been written in a single day by a monk named Abba Garima in the 6th century. Legend held that God had stopped the sun in the sky so the monk could finish copying the holy text before nightfall. The illustrations inside—stunning portraits of the Evangelists, their eyes wide and liquid—seemed to follow you around the dim chapel. ethiopian bible
"They did not fall. They walked among us. And Ethiopia remembers." Legend held that God had stopped the sun
And the strangest of them all was the Book of Enoch. They walked among us
In the highlands of northern Ethiopia, within the ancient rock-hewn church of Abba Garima, there lay a book that no one dared to touch after sunset. It wasn't because of a curse, but because the villagers believed the book breathed .