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The Ascension of Isaiah

R. H. Charles (1900) · existing translation, source record and notes

Outside the canon. The Ascension of Isaiah is not in the Bible of any tradition on the Scriptures shelf. It is hosted here as a historical record. The Scriptures shelf →

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Canon check, 2026-10-26: not in the Protestant, Catholic or Eastern Orthodox lists on the Scriptures shelf; not in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s 81-book list (https://ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html) or in R. W. Cowley, “The Biblical Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today,” Ostkirchliche Studien 23 (1974) 318–323; and not among the additional books in the Armenian canon lists tabulated from M. E. Stone’s Harvard Theological Review studies (https://islamic-awareness.org/bible/text/canon/armenianlist).

Some European writers once described the Ascension of Isaiah as canonical in Ethiopia; Cowley (1974) did not find it so “at the present”, and it is not in the Church’s own list. Its complete text survives in Ethiopic.

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