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Original Languages
The Scriptures in the tongues they were first written — every word hover-glossed into English. R…
The Expanded Canons
The fuller biblical canons preserved by churches that never narrowed the list — books most Weste…
The Enoch Library
Three independent Enoch traditions — the Watchers, the heavens, and the throne of God in escalat…
The Patriarchal Writings
The hidden lives, deathbed visions, and final testaments of the patriarchs — what Genesis only h…
The Prophetic Writings
Apocalypses, oracles, and prophetic hymns — the visions that shaped Jewish and early Christian e…
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The library of Qumran — community rules, end-times battle plans, and the oldest Hebrew Bible man…
The Nag Hammadi Library
Fifty-two early Christian texts buried in Upper Egypt around 367 CE — gospels of Thomas, Philip,…
The Forgotten Books of Eden
The pseudepigrapha compiled by Rutherford H. Platt in 1926 — Adam and Eve after Eden, the making…
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Hebrew Old Testament
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
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.
Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
The most complete mainstream canon — preserves Enoch, Jubilees, Meqabyan, and 4 Ezra as Scripture, not appendix.
Catholic Deuterocanon
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees — kept by Rome, removed by the Reformers, quoted by Christ and the apostles.
Slavonic Bible
Carries 2 Enoch and 3 Esdras as part of its received text — Slavic Christianity's witness to books the West forgot.
1 Enoch (Ethiopian)
Names the 200 Watchers who descended on Mount Hermon, the forbidden knowledge they taught, and the Nephilim they fathered.
2 Enoch (Slavonic)
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)
Enoch transformed into Metatron, the angel who writes the record of heaven — Jewish mysticism's highest vision of the throne.
Book of Jubilees
Genesis and Exodus retold in 49-year jubilee cycles, with the angels who dictated the Torah to Moses on Sinai.
Book of Jasher
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
What happened after the Garden — Adam's penance, Eve's vision, and the death of the first man.
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
The deathbed words of Jacob's twelve sons — each one warning his descendants about the sin that nearly destroyed him.
Testament of Abraham
The archangel Michael sent to take Abraham's soul — and Abraham's tour of the judgment of the dead.
Testament of Moses
Moses' final prophecy to Joshua — a sweep of Israel's future the canonical text never records.
Testament of Solomon
Solomon's record of the demons he bound to build the Temple — names, ranks, and the rings that controlled them.
Testament of Job
Job's own retelling of his suffering, his wife's grief, and the heavenly chariots his daughters were given to see.
Joseph and Aseneth
How Joseph's Egyptian wife converted — the angelic visitation, the honeycomb, and the bridal chamber language echoed in the Gospels.
4 Ezra (2 Esdras)
Ezra's seven visions wrestling with why God allowed the Temple's destruction — and the messianic answer he was given.
2 Baruch
Baruch's apocalypse after the fall of Jerusalem — the cloud of black and bright waters mapping all of history.
3 Baruch
Baruch's tour of the five heavens — the sun, the moon, the angels, and the prayers of the righteous.
Apocalypse of Abraham
Abraham taken into heaven before the covenant — shown the throne, the nations, and the future of his seed.
Apocalypse of Moses
The death of Adam as Eve told it — and the angels who carried his soul into Paradise.
Sibylline Oracles
Jewish and Christian prophecies in the voice of the pagan sibyls — addressed to Rome, Greece, and the empires of the world.
Psalms of Solomon
Eighteen psalms written after Pompey took Jerusalem — the clearest pre-Christian portrait of the coming Messiah.
Odes of Solomon
The earliest known Christian hymnbook — forty-two odes singing the union of the believer with the risen Christ.
The First Book of Adam and Eve
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
The line of Seth through Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, and Enoch — down to the days of Noah and the Flood.
The Letter of Aristeas
The origin story of the Septuagint — how 72 Jewish scholars translated the Torah into Greek in Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus.
4 Maccabees
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
The Assyrian wisdom tale of Ahikar, Grand Vizier to Sennacherib — quoted in the Book of Tobit and echoed across the ancient world.
High-resolution images of every fragment, searchable by scroll.
Full-scroll zoom viewer for the Great Isaiah, Community Rule, War, Temple, and Habakkuk Commentary scrolls.
Where the scrolls are — right now.
A traveling exhibit is in Washington, D.C. through September 2026. The permanent homes are in Jerusalem and Amman.
Museum of the Bible
Nov 22, 2025 – Sep 6, 2026
"Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition" — 200 artifacts and 65 scrolls, in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
400 4th St SW, Washington, DC 20024
Get tickets →Shrine of the Book · Israel Museum
Permanent home of the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule, the War Scroll, and the Temple Scroll — the largest and best-preserved of the DSS.
Ruppin Rd 11, Jerusalem
Plan a visit →The Jordan Museum
Houses the Copper Scroll (3Q15) and additional Qumran fragments recovered on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea.
Ali Bin Abi Taleb St, Amman
Plan a visit →The texts are free — the translations aren't ours to host.
The Coptic manuscripts are ancient and public domain, but every serious English translation (Robinson 1977, Meyer 2007, Layton 1987) is under active copyright. Each book below links out to the official free digital edition hosted by the Gnostic Society Library.
The Gospel of Thomas
Read →Codex II · 114 sayings of the living Jesus
The sayings gospel — no narrative, no crucifixion, just Jesus' teachings. Overlaps ~50% with Matthew, Mark, and Luke, with parables the canon never kept.
Meyer translation · gnosis.org
The Gospel of Philip
Read →Codex II · sacramental theology
The bridal-chamber sacrament, Mary Magdalene as Jesus' companion, and the clearest early Christian statement that resurrection happens in this life, not after.
Isenberg translation · gnosis.org
The Gospel of Truth
Read →Codex I · Valentinian homily
A poetic meditation on the Father, the Word, and the return of the lost — attributed by many scholars to Valentinus himself.
Attridge & MacRae · gnosis.org
The Gospel of Mary
Read →Berlin Codex · Mary Magdalene as apostle
Mary receives a private revelation from the risen Christ and teaches it to Peter and the disciples — the earliest surviving text naming a woman as an authoritative teacher of the Jesus movement.
King translation · gnosis.org
The Apocryphon of John
Read →Codices II, III, IV & Berlin · Sethian cosmology
The full Sethian creation myth — the Monad, the aeons, Sophia's fall, and the Demiurge Yaldabaoth who made this world thinking he was the only god.
Wisse translation · gnosis.org
The Apocryphon of James
Read →Codex I · secret teachings after the resurrection
A private revelation to James and Peter 550 days after the resurrection — the teachings Jesus withheld from the crowds.
Williams translation · gnosis.org
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
Read →Codex III · risen Christ dialogue
The risen Jesus answers his disciples' questions about the Father, the aeons, and how the divine spark came to be trapped in matter.
Parrott translation · gnosis.org
The Apocalypse of Peter
Read →Codex VII · Peter's vision of the crucifixion
Peter sees the crucifixion from a Gnostic vantage — the laughing Savior above the cross, and the fleshly body suffering below.
Brashler & Bullard · gnosis.org
The (First) Apocalypse of James
Read →Codex V · Jesus prepares James for martyrdom
Jesus teaches James the passwords the soul needs to pass the archons on its ascent — days before James' own death in Jerusalem.
Schoedel translation · gnosis.org
The (Second) Apocalypse of James
Read →Codex V · James' final speech and death
James' last discourse in the Temple and the account of his stoning — a Jewish-Christian martyrdom told from inside the Jerusalem church.
Hedrick translation · gnosis.org
Where the codices live.
All thirteen leather-bound codices are held together in a single collection at the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, a short walk from the Hanging Church.
Coptic Museum
Permanent home of all thirteen Nag Hammadi codices, held in the museum's manuscripts wing since shortly after their 1945 discovery.
Mar Girgis, Old Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Plan a visit →- Sibylline OraclesProphetic Writings
- Testament of SolomonPatriarchal Writings
- 3 BaruchProphetic Writings
New to The Full Canon? Begin with the Book of Enoch — it names the Watchers, the Nephilim, and the forbidden knowledge Genesis only hints at.
Read 1 Enoch →