The Complete Lost Books of the Bible: Every Text Complete & Unabridged: 1, 2 & 3 Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, Maccabees, the Twelve Patriarchs, 2 Baruch, ... Canon Comparison Chart & Original Prayers - Softcover

Whitfield, Asher

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798171073824

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Most "complete" collections of the lost books are quiet abridgements. This one isn't — and you can check.

Open any chapter against the classic scholarly translations and you will find every verse, in order, word for word. Nothing summarized. Nothing modernized. Nothing quietly left out. Where a manuscript has a gap, the gap is shown and disclosed — never smoothed over. The Book of Enoch itself pronounced woe on those who "alter and pervert the words of righteousness" and blessed those who write them down truthfully, changing nothing (1 Enoch 104:10–11). This is the edition that warning asks for.

INSIDE THIS VOLUME — every text complete:

• 1 Enoch (all 108 chapters) — the Watchers descend, the giants' spirits become demons, the Son of Man stands beside the Head of Days
• 2 Enoch (all 68 chapters) — the ascent through the ten heavens, preserved only in Old Slavonic
• 3 Enoch (all 48 chapters + supplements) — the Hebrew mystical Enoch and the transformation of Enoch into Metatron
• Jubilees (all 50 chapters) — Genesis retold with details no other Bible preserves
• Jasher (all 91 chapters) — the book the Bible names twice: Abram in Nimrod's furnace, the idols of Terah smashed, why Sodom fell
• 1 & 2 Maccabees — faith and resistance under persecution
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (all twelve, unabridged)
• Psalms of Solomon (all 18) — an eyewitness sings the fall of Jerusalem to Pompey
• Baruch, 1 & 2 Esdras — exile, lament, and the great debate before King Darius
• The Apocalypse of Baruch (all 87 chapters) — the Vision of the Cloud
• The Ascension of Isaiah (all 11 chapters) — the prophet's martyrdom and the descent through the seven heavens

WHAT SETS THIS EDITION APART

• Actually complete — and verified. Every book's chapter sequence and verse numbering was checked against its source. 764 typeset pages, because the real texts are long.
• The classic scholarly translations. R.H. Charles, W.R. Morfill, Hugo Odeberg, Moses Samuel — printed in extenso.
• Honest about what these texts are. The introduction tells you plainly what scholars know about each book's date and origin — including the hard parts other editions hide.
• Canon Comparison Chart. Where every book stands in the Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Ethiopian Orthodox canons.
• Original prayers. Eight in the book — plus one hundred more, seven for every book, free in the reader's companion library at lostbookslibrary.com (QR code inside).
• A full audit trail. Every book ends with a source note stating its translation, edition, and exactly what was normalized.
• Illustrated with 14 Gustave Doré engravings. Each book opens with a full plate from The Doré Bible Gallery (1886), credited plate by plate.

WHO THIS EDITION IS FOR

• Readers burned by "complete" collections that turned out to be summaries
• Students of scripture, church history, and the apocryphal writings
• Believers who want to read, in full, what the earliest readers actually read
• Anyone drawn to the books the councils set aside — and to why

These books survived fire, exile, councils, and forgetfulness — in Ge'ez, in Slavonic, in Syriac, in Hebrew. They deserve to be read whole. Here, finally, they are.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798171073824
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 764
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg