Books Not In The Protestant Bible. Books of the ethiopian bible features 20 of these books that are not included in the protestant bible. They are tobit, judith, 1 maccabees, 2 maccabees, wisdom of solomon, ecclesiasticus and baruch.
They are tobias (tobit), judith, 1 and 2 maccabees, wisdom, ecclesiasticus (or sirach), and baruch. There were two different versions of the old testament at the time of christ. This is why the protestant bible has fewer books.
‘the books commonly called apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of god, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings’ (1.3).
The septuagint version and the masoretic version. This is why the protestant bible has fewer books. The roman catholic church added the apocrypha to the canon, and it didn’t do so until 1546. Catholics refer to these books as the deutercanonical 2 books while protestants refer to them as apocryphal3 books.