For 30 years my Bible felt strangely incomplete — until I found the books quietly removed from it.
One church in the Ethiopian highlands never accepted the edits. This is the complete library they kept — all five volumes — and how, for the first time, you can actually read it.
For 30 years, something about my Bible felt unfinished.
I could never name it — until I stopped on a verse like Jude 1:14, where the apostle Jude quotes the Book of Enoch. A book that isn’t in my Bible. And I thought: wait — where is that book?
It turned out 22 more were missing — gathered now in one five-volume library: the Holy Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi scriptures, the Books of Enoch, and the complete 88-book Ethiopian Bible. Here’s what I found — and how, for the first time, you can actually read all of it.
If you've ever sensed there was more to the story than the 66 books you were handed in church, if a passage ever referenced writings that simply weren't there, you are far from alone. Millions of believers carry the same quiet question and never get an answer.
For most of my life I assumed the Bible had always been one fixed, complete book. I was wrong. And what I found changed how I read scripture forever.
Imagine reading the scriptures the early church actually read
Not a footnote. Not a summary. The complete account: the full record of Enoch and the Watchers, the Dead Sea Scrolls beside the canon you know, the Nag Hammadi writings — the complete Ethiopian Bible Library as it was preserved before the councils edited it down.
Here's what most believers are never told
The Bible on your shelf was not handed down whole. It was assembled and edited by councils of men. At gatherings like the Council of Laodicea in 363 AD — and the synods that followed — a small group decided which books you would be allowed to read, and which would be left out.
Books read and revered for centuries — Enoch (quoted by Jude himself), Jubilees, the fuller record — were removed. Not because they were proven false. Because they didn't fit the version the gatekeepers wanted to standardize.
Maybe you've already tried to fill the gap
Most people who feel this buy a study Bible, but it only footnotes what's missing. Or an apocrypha app, dense and unreadable. Or a used copy of one lost book, but never the complete canon, and never as audio they can live with.
None give you the whole inheritance, restored and readable. That's exactly the problem I set out to solve.
The one unbroken line to the complete Bible
There is exactly one place the full canon survived intact: the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church, which for over 1,600 years preserved the complete 88-book canon while the rest of the world edited theirs down to 66.
We've restored that complete canon — every one of the 88 books, in clear modern English, in one 834-page volume you can read or listen to:
22 Books Were Cut From Your Bible. One Church Refused to Delete a Single One.
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22 Books Were Cut From Your Bible. One Church Refused to Delete a Single One.
No more squinting at 'magnifying-glass' print. No more century-old 'thee-and-thou' you can't get through. No more wondering if you'll get what was advertised. This is the genuinely complete — and genuinely readable — Ethiopian Bible Library: all five hardcover volumes, in plain modern English — and your full digital library + audiobooks land in your inbox minutes after checkout, before the books even ship.
- The complete 88-book canon — 22 books beyond the standard 66, across five hardcover volumes
- Verified modern English — readable alongside your Bible, not an archaic translation
- Free: instant eBook + full audiobook — in your inbox in minutes after checkout
- Free: the 242-Book Lost & Forbidden Library — 242 lost & apocryphal texts in eBook + audiobook
- 365-day full money-back guarantee — keep the digital library even if you return the book
- Free US shipping · Printed in the USA · ships fully tracked
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I've studied ancient history for years. This edition has texts I've never seen in print before. The translation is finally readable. Worth every penny.
I quoted Enoch 1:9 in sermons for years without knowing the full book existed. Now I have the complete text. My congregation was stunned.
Bought two — kept one, gave one to my father. He called me the next day to say it was the most interesting book he'd opened in years.
What's Inside
The complete 88-book canon · nearly 800 pages · verified modern English:
- The complete 66 — every book of the Old & New Testament you already know
- + The Book of Enoch — quoted by Jude in your New Testament, left out at Laodicea (363 AD)
- + Jubilees, the 3 Sets of Meqabyan & the Deuterocanon — 22 books the Ethiopian Church never lost
- Read in the early church for 1,500 years — restored in clear, verified modern English
- Page-numbered contents & a plain-English introduction before every single book
Free with every order — $449+ in value:
- Instant eBook + full audiobook — in your inbox in minutes via BookFunnel
- The 242-Book Lost & Forbidden Library — 242 lost & apocryphal texts in eBook + audiobook
- Free US shipping · printed & shipped from the USA · fully tracked
- 365-day full money-back guarantee — keep the digital library even if you return the book
Format & Specs
- 7″ × 10″ premium paperback — large format, easy on the eyes
- Nearly 800 pages · printed to order
- Companion ePub + PDF for every device
- Full full audiobook included
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- Instant: ePub, PDF + audiobook arrive by email seconds after checkout
- Printed book: made to order, ships free & fully tracked
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I'd known my Bible was edited down for years — but I'd never read the books that were left out. This edition changed that: the complete 88-book canon, in a month. The connections across Genesis, Daniel and the rest are everywhere. I recommend it before every Bible study now.
I built an entire Sunday series around the missing books. My congregation had more questions after those services than any other series this year. Half these books were completely new to me — and to nearly every pastor I've since recommended this to.
I've seen 'lost books of the Bible' content before — usually sensationalist and misleading. This is different. Every text is placed in careful historical context, nothing is overclaimed, and the scholarship is visible without being dense. I'd recommend this at my church.
I teach RE at a Catholic school and the Dead Sea Scrolls come up every year. We've always cobbled together information from websites. Now I have one volume with proper introductions that actually looks like it belongs in a reference library. My students take it seriously.
