"Additional Holy Books" or "Secondary Canon" of the Beta Israel

Primary List of Qes Abba Yitshak

1. Enoch
2. Jubilees
3. Testament of Abraham
4. Testament of Isaac
5. Testament of Jacob
6. Motä Musē
7. Motä Aron
8. The Colloquy of Moses with God on Mount Sinai
9. Te’ezāza Sanbat
10. Arde'et (Disciples)
11. Gorgoryos
12. Ethiopic Apocalypse of Baruch
13. Sa’atat (Hours)

Secondary List of Qes Abba Yitshak

14. Fekkare Iyasus (in a lost Beta Israel recension)
15. Maṣḥafa Falāsfā Tabībān (in a lost Beta Israel recension)
16. Abba Elyas

Further Texts Included in the "Secondary Canon" by Dr. Steven Kaplan

• Homily on Abraham and Sarah in Egypt
• Acts of Susanna
• Book of Angels
• “In the Beginning God Created”
• Apocalypse of Ezra

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