Catholic Deuterocanon
7 books · Greek/Latin
Why it matters
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees — kept by Rome, removed by the Reformers, quoted by Christ and the apostles.
The Library
The complete collection.
Six categories. Every text that shaped humanity's understanding of God — restored, sourced, and ready to read.
01
10th c. BCE – 1st c. CE
2
canons
Original Languages
Hebrew · Koine Greek
The Scriptures in the tongues they were first written — every word hover-glossed into English. Read what was actually written.
01
10th c. BCE – 1st c. CE
Original Languages
Hebrew · Koine Greek
The Scriptures in the tongues they were first written — every word hover-glossed into English. Read what was actually written.
2
canons
Hebrew Old Testament
Read →עִבְרִית · Torah live · Westminster Leningrad Codex + STEPBible glosses
Why it matters
The Tanakh in the original Hebrew of the Masoretic Text. Hover any word for its English gloss and transliteration — YHWH, ruach, chesed, as they were first spoken. Torah available now; Prophets and Writings coming.
Greek New Testament
Read →Κοινή · 27 books · SBLGNT + Berean Interlinear glosses
Why it matters
All 27 books of the New Testament in the original Greek. Hover any word to reveal its English gloss — Logos, Christos, Pneuma, and the rest, as they were first written.
02
1st – 15th century CE
3
canons
The Expanded Canons
Ge'ez · Latin · Greek · Slavonic
The fuller biblical canons preserved by churches that never narrowed the list — books most Western Bibles quietly dropped.
02
1st – 15th century CE
The Expanded Canons
Ge'ez · Latin · Greek · Slavonic
The fuller biblical canons preserved by churches that never narrowed the list — books most Western Bibles quietly dropped.
3
canons
Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
Read →81 books · Ge'ez · 4th century CE
Why it matters
The most complete mainstream canon — preserves Enoch, Jubilees, Meqabyan, and 4 Ezra as Scripture, not appendix.
Slavonic Bible
Eastern Slavic canon · 9th century CE
Why it matters
Carries 2 Enoch and 3 Esdras as part of its received text — Slavic Christianity's witness to books the West forgot.
03
300 BCE – 5th century CE
3
books
The Enoch Library
Ge'ez · Slavonic · Hebrew · Aramaic
Three independent Enoch traditions — the Watchers, the heavens, and the throne of God in escalating detail.
03
300 BCE – 5th century CE
The Enoch Library
Ge'ez · Slavonic · Hebrew · Aramaic
Three independent Enoch traditions — the Watchers, the heavens, and the throne of God in escalating detail.
3
books
1 Enoch (Ethiopian)
Read →Ge'ez · 300 BCE – 100 BCE
Why it matters
Names the 200 Watchers who descended on Mount Hermon, the forbidden knowledge they taught, and the Nephilim they fathered.
2 Enoch (Slavonic)
Read →Slavonic · 1st century CE
Why it matters
Enoch's tour through the seven heavens — what each level holds, who guards it, and what God showed him before the flood.
3 Enoch (Hebrew)
Read →Hebrew · 5th century CE
Why it matters
Enoch transformed into Metatron, the angel who writes the record of heaven — Jewish mysticism's highest vision of the throne.
04
200 BCE – 200 CE
9
books
The Patriarchal Writings
Hebrew · Greek · Aramaic
The hidden lives, deathbed visions, and final testaments of the patriarchs — what Genesis only hints at, told in full.
04
200 BCE – 200 CE
The Patriarchal Writings
Hebrew · Greek · Aramaic
The hidden lives, deathbed visions, and final testaments of the patriarchs — what Genesis only hints at, told in full.
9
books
Book of Jubilees
Read →Hebrew · 150 BCE
Why it matters
Genesis and Exodus retold in 49-year jubilee cycles, with the angels who dictated the Torah to Moses on Sinai.
Book of Jasher
Read →Hebrew · cited in Joshua & 2 Samuel
Why it matters
Cited by name in the Hebrew Bible itself — fills in Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the sun standing still at Joshua's command.
Life of Adam and Eve
Read →Greek/Latin · 1st century CE
Why it matters
What happened after the Garden — Adam's penance, Eve's vision, and the death of the first man.
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Read →Greek · 2nd century BCE
Why it matters
The deathbed words of Jacob's twelve sons — each one warning his descendants about the sin that nearly destroyed him.
Testament of Abraham
Read →Greek · 1st – 2nd century CE
Why it matters
The archangel Michael sent to take Abraham's soul — and Abraham's tour of the judgment of the dead.
Testament of Moses
Read →Hebrew/Greek · 1st century CE
Why it matters
Moses' final prophecy to Joshua — a sweep of Israel's future the canonical text never records.
Testament of Solomon
Read →Greek · 1st – 3rd century CE
Why it matters
Solomon's record of the demons he bound to build the Temple — names, ranks, and the rings that controlled them.
Testament of Job
Greek · 1st century BCE
Why it matters
Job's own retelling of his suffering, his wife's grief, and the heavenly chariots his daughters were given to see.
Joseph and Aseneth
Greek · 1st century BCE – 2nd century CE
Why it matters
How Joseph's Egyptian wife converted — the angelic visitation, the honeycomb, and the bridal chamber language echoed in the Gospels.
05
200 BCE – 200 CE
8
books
The Prophetic Writings
Hebrew · Greek · Aramaic · Latin
Apocalypses, oracles, and prophetic hymns — the visions that shaped Jewish and early Christian expectation of the end.
05
200 BCE – 200 CE
The Prophetic Writings
Hebrew · Greek · Aramaic · Latin
Apocalypses, oracles, and prophetic hymns — the visions that shaped Jewish and early Christian expectation of the end.
8
books
4 Ezra (2 Esdras)
Read →Hebrew/Latin · late 1st century CE
Why it matters
Ezra's seven visions wrestling with why God allowed the Temple's destruction — and the messianic answer he was given.
2 Baruch
Syriac · early 2nd century CE
Why it matters
Baruch's apocalypse after the fall of Jerusalem — the cloud of black and bright waters mapping all of history.
3 Baruch
Greek/Slavonic · 1st – 3rd century CE
Why it matters
Baruch's tour of the five heavens — the sun, the moon, the angels, and the prayers of the righteous.
Apocalypse of Abraham
Slavonic · 1st – 2nd century CE
Why it matters
Abraham taken into heaven before the covenant — shown the throne, the nations, and the future of his seed.
Apocalypse of Moses
Greek · 1st century CE
Why it matters
The death of Adam as Eve told it — and the angels who carried his soul into Paradise.
Sibylline Oracles
Greek · 2nd century BCE – 7th century CE
Why it matters
Jewish and Christian prophecies in the voice of the pagan sibyls — addressed to Rome, Greece, and the empires of the world.
Psalms of Solomon
Read →Hebrew/Greek · 1st century BCE
Why it matters
Eighteen psalms written after Pompey took Jerusalem — the clearest pre-Christian portrait of the coming Messiah.
Odes of Solomon
Read →Syriac · late 1st – 2nd century CE
Why it matters
The earliest known Christian hymnbook — forty-two odes singing the union of the believer with the risen Christ.
06
Discovered 1947 · written 3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE
900+
manuscripts
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew · Aramaic
The library of Qumran — community rules, end-times battle plans, and the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscripts on earth.
06
Discovered 1947 · written 3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew · Aramaic
The library of Qumran — community rules, end-times battle plans, and the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscripts on earth.
900+
manuscripts
Community Rule (1QS)
Hebrew · ~100 BCE
Why it matters
The Essene way of life — initiation, daily order, and the two spirits at war inside every person.
War Scroll (1QM)
Hebrew · 1st century BCE
Why it matters
The forty-year final battle between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness — formations, banners, and the angels who fight for Israel.
Temple Scroll (11QT)
Hebrew · 2nd century BCE
Why it matters
The Torah rewritten in God's own first-person voice — a blueprint for the temple that was supposed to be built.
Damascus Document (CD)
Hebrew · 2nd – 1st century BCE
Why it matters
The community's history and discipline — the Teacher of Righteousness, the Wicked Priest, and the New Covenant in the land of Damascus.
900+ Additional Manuscript Fragments
Hebrew · Aramaic · Greek
Why it matters
The oldest surviving copies of nearly every book of the Hebrew Bible — plus pesharim, hymns, and lost Enoch & Jubilees fragments.
07
Discovered 1945 · buried 4th century CE
52
texts
The Nag Hammadi Library
Coptic
Fifty-two early Christian texts buried in Upper Egypt — gospels, dialogues, and revelations the councils erased.
07
Discovered 1945 · buried 4th century CE
The Nag Hammadi Library
Coptic
Fifty-two early Christian texts buried in Upper Egypt — gospels, dialogues, and revelations the councils erased.
52
texts
Gospel of Thomas
Coptic · compiled 1st – 2nd century CE
Why it matters
114 sayings of Jesus with no narrative — the closest thing we have to a raw transcript of his teaching.
Gospel of Philip
Coptic · 3rd century CE
Why it matters
Sacrament, symbol, and the bridal chamber — the mystical Christianity that read marriage as the image of union with God.
Gospel of Truth
Coptic · mid-2nd century CE
Why it matters
A meditation, not a narrative — the gospel as the discovery of who you really are in the mind of the Father.
Gospel of Mary
Coptic/Greek · 2nd century CE
Why it matters
Mary Magdalene's vision of the risen Christ and the soul's ascent past the powers — and Peter's refusal to believe a woman.
48 Additional Early Christian Texts
Coptic · 2nd – 4th century CE
Why it matters
Apocryphons of John and James, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Sophia of Jesus Christ — a parallel Christianity preserved in full.
08
2nd century BCE – 2nd century CE
5
books
The Forgotten Books of Eden
Greek · Syriac · Aramaic · Ethiopic
The pseudepigrapha compiled by Rutherford H. Platt in 1926 — Adam and Eve after Eden, the making of the Septuagint, the martyrs under Antiochus, and the Assyrian sage Ahikar.
08
2nd century BCE – 2nd century CE
The Forgotten Books of Eden
Greek · Syriac · Aramaic · Ethiopic
The pseudepigrapha compiled by Rutherford H. Platt in 1926 — Adam and Eve after Eden, the making of the Septuagint, the martyrs under Antiochus, and the Assyrian sage Ahikar.
5
books
The First Book of Adam and Eve
Read →79 chapters · Ethiopic/Arabic tradition
Why it matters
Their life after being cast out of Eden — the Cave of Treasures, Satan's temptations, and the first sorrows of humanity.
The Second Book of Adam and Eve
Read →22 chapters · Ethiopic/Arabic tradition
Why it matters
The line of Seth through Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, and Enoch — down to the days of Noah and the Flood.
The Letter of Aristeas
Read →Greek · ~2nd century BCE
Why it matters
The origin story of the Septuagint — how 72 Jewish scholars translated the Torah into Greek in Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus.
4 Maccabees
Read →Greek · 1st century CE
Why it matters
A philosophical treatise on martyrdom under Antiochus — Inspired Reason as ruler over the passions, and the courage of Eleazar and the seven brothers.
The Story of Ahikar
Read →Aramaic · attested 500 BCE
Why it matters
The Assyrian wisdom tale of Ahikar, Grand Vizier to Sennacherib — quoted in the Book of Tobit and echoed across the ancient world.