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.

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.

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.

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.

Book of Jubilees

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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. The scrolls themselves are ancient and free, but every modern English translation (Vermes, García Martínez, Wise-Abegg-Cook, Charlesworth) is under active copyright and can't legally be reproduced here. Below: the official free digital libraries where you can read the actual manuscripts, and where to go see them in person.

See them in person

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.

On view nowWashington, D.C.

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

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PermanentJerusalem

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

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PermanentAmman, Jordan

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

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Discovered 1945 · buried 4th century CE
52
texts

The Nag Hammadi Library

Coptic

Fifty-two early Christian texts buried in Upper Egypt around 367 CE — gospels of Thomas, Philip, Truth, and Mary, the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and the parallel Christianity the councils erased. The Coptic manuscripts are ancient and free, but every serious English translation (Robinson 1977, Meyer 2007, Layton 1987) is under active copyright and can't legally be reproduced here. Below: the official free digital editions where you can read the full library, and where the codices themselves are held.

Read them for yourself

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

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Codex II · 114 sayings of the living Jesus

Why it matters

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

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Codex II · sacramental theology

Why it matters

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

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Codex I · Valentinian homily

Why it matters

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

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Berlin Codex · Mary Magdalene as apostle

Why it matters

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

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Codices II, III, IV & Berlin · Sethian cosmology

Why it matters

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

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Codex I · secret teachings after the resurrection

Why it matters

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

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Codex III · risen Christ dialogue

Why it matters

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

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Codex VII · Peter's vision of the crucifixion

Why it matters

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

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Codex V · Jesus prepares James for martyrdom

Why it matters

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

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Codex V · James' final speech and death

Why it matters

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

See them in person

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.

PermanentCairo, Egypt

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

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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.