The 1954 Amharic Bible was translated by a team of Ethiopian scholars and theologians, with the support of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and international Christian organizations. This version was based on the original Greek and Hebrew texts, as well as previous Amharic translations. The result was a clear, accurate, and readable version of the Bible that has become the standard for Ethiopian Christians.
In the early 1930s, Emperor Haile Selassie I convened a committee of Ethiopian scholars to create a definitive, modern Amharic translation directly from the ancient Ge'ez manuscripts, cross-referenced with Hebrew and Greek texts. The work was interrupted by the Italo-Ethiopian War but was finally completed and published in 1954 (1947 E.C. in the Ethiopian calendar). Why the 1954 Edition is a "Better Work"
: This version is a significant revision of the first complete Amharic Bible printed in 1840. It is a "very close translation" to the Authorized King James Version .
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