The Patriarchal Writings

9 books · 200 BCE – 200 CE · 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

Genesis and Exodus retold in 49-year jubilee cycles, with the angels who dictated the Torah to Moses on Sinai.

Cited by name in the Hebrew Bible itself — fills in Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the sun standing still at Joshua's command.

What happened after the Garden — Adam's penance, Eve's vision, and the death of the first man.

The deathbed words of Jacob's twelve sons — each one warning his descendants about the sin that nearly destroyed him.

The archangel Michael sent to take Abraham's soul — and Abraham's tour of the judgment of the dead.

Moses' final prophecy to Joshua — a sweep of Israel's future the canonical text never records.

Solomon's record of the demons he bound to build the Temple — names, ranks, and the rings that controlled them.

Job's own retelling of his suffering, his wife's grief, and the heavenly chariots his daughters were given to see.

How Joseph's Egyptian wife converted — the angelic visitation, the honeycomb, and the bridal chamber language echoed in the Gospels.