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At a glance
- Traditional author
- Apostolic Sinodos tradition
- Traditional date
- Early church canons preserved in Ethiopic Sinodos corpus
- Traditional audience
- EOTC broader NT (official item 29)
Listed in: Ethiopian 81.
Meaning of Tizaz (the book of Herald)
Sinodos book of Herald/Commandments in the EOTC broader New Testament.
Traditional understanding
The second of the four Sinodos books in the Ethiopian Orthodox New Testament (Te'ezaz, "Commandments"): apostolic commands for the life of the church.
Historical context
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo broader canon (46 OT + 35 NT) as published at ethiopianorthodox.org.
Setting of the writing
Apostolic church-order tradition in Ethiopic reception.
Literary shape
Church-order or historical book in the EOTC broader-canon enumeration, received as Scripture in that list rather than in the Western 66.
Themes
- apostolic commandments
- church order
Tizaz (the book of Herald) chapter by chapter
Tizaz
Tizaz (the book of Herald) 1 — Te'ezaz
Te'ezaz, the Statutes, holds seventy-one canons and is the work’s large middle voice of command. Much of it reflects the same world as books of the Apostolic Constitutions: teaching on clergy and laity, offerings, festivals, treatment of the poor, and the moral boundaries of a baptized people. Tradition hears it as Clementine statute—orders the apostles are said to have laid on the churches.
Meaning: If Ser'ata Seyon sketches the house, Te'ezaz fills the rooms with lasting commands. The Ethiopian church reads these statutes as durable apostolic will, so worship and ethics do not drift with each generation’s mood.