7 Books Quietly Removed From Your Bible by Early Councils (and Why #4 Was the One They Feared Most)
For 1,600 years, one church in the Ethiopian highlands refused to delete them. Here's what they kept — and what most believers have never been allowed to read.
The Bible you were handed has 66 books. The earliest Christians read 88. At councils most people have never heard of, the other 22+ were quietly removed. Here are 7 of them, and the one church that never let go.
The Book of Jubilees
A second Genesis that fills in what the first one leaves out — the origins of evil, the unnamed, and a hidden calendar.
The Book of Jasher
Your Bible quotes it twice — is this not written in the Book of Jasher? (Joshua 10:13) — yet the book itself isn't in it.
Sirach & the Books of the Maccabees
Read aloud in churches for over 1,500 years — then deleted in the 1500s. Entire books removed within recent history.
The Book of Enoch
It names the fallen angels — the Watchers — who descended to earth and taught humanity forbidden knowledge: metallurgy, weapons, sorcery, the secrets of the heavens. Quoted directly by the apostle Jude. Revered for centuries, then erased so completely most Christians have never heard it exists.
The Book of Giants
The full account of the Nephilim — the giant offspring of the Watchers — preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Gospel of Thomas
114 secret sayings of Jesus, recovered at Nag Hammadi — teachings that never made it into the four gospels.
2 Esdras & the Lost Apocalypses
Visions of the end of days and the fate of the lost tribes — left on the cutting-room floor.
One church kept every single one
While the rest of the world edited its Bible down to 66 books, the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church preserved the complete 88-book canon for over 1,600 years. We've restored it into 5 modern volumes you can read and listen to, plus all 242 Lost & Forbidden Books.
Most 'lost books' surface one cheap reprint at a time. Here's how the complete restored library compares before you try to assemble it piece by piece:
| The complete library | A standard 66-book Bible | Buying each volume separately | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The complete 88-book canon | All 88, in one set | 66 books only | piecemeal & incomplete |
| All 5 volumes in modern English | ✓ | ✕ | varies by seller |
| The Dead Sea Scrolls, in print | ✓ | ✕ | sold separately |
| The Nag Hammadi scriptures, in print | ✓ | ✕ | sold separately |
| All 3 Books of Enoch + the Book of Giants | ✓ | ✕ | rarely complete |
| 100+ hours of audiobooks | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| 242-book Lost & Forbidden bonus library | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| 365-day money-back guarantee | ✓ | — | — |
| A publisher you can verify | ✓ | — | varies |
I had no idea my Bible was missing this much. Reading Enoch for the first time gave me chills.
The audiobooks changed everything for me — 100+ hours, and I listen on every drive.
The complete 88-book canon in 5 modern volumes — the Holy Bible, the 88-Book Ethiopian Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi scriptures, and the Complete Books of Enoch. Free eBooks, 100+ hours of audiobooks & the 242-book Lost & Forbidden library included with every set. 365-day guarantee.
Take a full year to decide. If it isn't the most important set of books you own, send it back any time in 365 days — and keep the digital library either way.
This is an advertisement. The Library of Alexandria publishes restored historical and public-domain religious texts in modern English. Historical claims reference the documented canon of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church and the textual history of the biblical canon. Reader experiences vary.