Category: Lost Books
Texts that were written, read and quoted in antiquity but left out of the Bible most people own: Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, the Gnostic gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls. What each one actually says, who excluded it and on what grounds, and what is claimed for them now – by the people who want them back in and by the people who do not.
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Books Mentioned in the Bible but Not Included: The Dead Links
Around twenty books are named in scripture as its own sources, cited more than forty times, and not one has ever been found. The…
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The Book of Enoch Giants: The Lost Book That Names Them
They were enormous and they ate people — that is the part everyone knows. The part nobody knows is that a second book about…
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The Gospel of Mary: Ten Missing Pages and One Argument
Bought in Cairo in 1896, published in 1955 after a burst water pipe and two world wars. What the surviving text says, why the…
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The Gospel of Thomas: 114 Sayings and No Story
Found twice — in an Egyptian rubbish mound in 1897 and a sealed jar in 1945. What the 114 sayings actually say, whether it…
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The Book of Jasher: Three Books, One Name, None of Them It
The Bible cites it twice and no copy survives. What the lost book probably was, why the medieval Sefer haYashar is not it, and…
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The Book of Jubilees: Fifteen Copies and the Wrong Calendar
Qumran held more copies of Jubilees than of Kings. What the book says, the 364-day calendar it was willing to split a nation over,…
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The Lost Books of the Bible: Who Left What Out
The lists are real. Most of the books are real. The argument is over one word: banned. What the categories actually are, what Nicaea…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Gap That Got Filled
For eighteen centuries the claim that the text came down unchanged was untestable. Then a shepherd threw a rock into a cave – and…
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Who Was Enoch? The Man Who Never Died
Genesis 5 lists the patriarchs and every entry ends the same way: and he died. On the seventh entry the ledger simply stops. Who…