Numbered first printing of 500
Six bodies of text that were read for centuries and then left out of the English Bible, gathered into one 594-page hardcover: the complete 1611 King James Apocrypha, the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Jasher, the Didache and the two Thomas texts.
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Every text is printed complete, in a translation old enough to be in the public domain, with raised verse figures and a short introduction that says what the book is and why it left the canon.
All fourteen books the King James translators set between the testaments, in the order they printed them. Esdras, Tobit, Judith, the additions to Esther and Daniel, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremiah, the Prayer of Manasses and both books of Maccabees. 173 chapters.
All 104 chapters in R. H. Charles's 1912 translation. The Watchers descend on Mount Hermon, take wives, teach the forbidden arts and father the giants. Quoted by name in the letter of Jude.
Genesis and early Exodus retold to Moses on Sinai by an angel, counted out in jubilees of forty nine years. All 49 chapters, R. H. Charles, 1902.
Chapters 1 to 47 of the 1840 New York translation, creation to the death of Isaac. That is the cut, and the book says so on the section page. The remaining 44 chapters do not fit one volume.
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, a working handbook for a first century congregation, in Charles H. Hoole's 1894 translation of the Bryennius manuscript.
The Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, both in M. R. James's 1924 Oxford translation.
Eighty one entries. Every named angel, fallen angel, class of heavenly being and divine title in the volume, with the book and chapter where each appears.
Engraving-style illustrations on pages 4, 68, 82, 194, 366, 448 and 576, printed on the same cream stock as the text.
Each copy of the first printing carries its own number on the edition page. 500 in all.
Black and white line art, printed full page, one for each section of the book.
Nothing here is newer than 1924, and that is on purpose. Every text is printed in a translation old enough to be in the public domain, so nothing stands between the reader and the page and no rights holder decides what you are allowed to read.
The Apocrypha is the 1611 King James text. Enoch and Jubilees are R. H. Charles, 1912 and 1902, the versions scholars still cite. Jasher is the anonymous 1840 New York translation generally attributed to Moses Samuel of Liverpool. The Didache is Charles H. Hoole, 1894, from the Bryennius manuscript, not the Roberts and Donaldson version. The Thomas texts are M. R. James, Oxford, 1924.
This is a reading copy, not a study bible. There are no footnotes arguing with the text. Each section opens with a page or two saying when the book was written, who translated it, and why it is not in your Bible. After that you are reading.
Two things are stated plainly rather than buried. Jasher is not the lost book named in Joshua 10 and 2 Samuel 1. It is Sefer haYashar, a medieval Hebrew chronicle, printed here for the traditions it preserves. And only its first 47 chapters are in this volume, creation to the death of Isaac, because 91 chapters will not fit alongside everything else.
| Format | 6x9 inch hardcover, casewrap |
|---|---|
| Length | 594 pages |
| Paper | Cream book stock, black and white interior |
| Illustrations | 7 full-page black and white plates |
| Texts | KJV Apocrypha 1611, Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher 1 to 47, Didache, two Thomas texts |
| Word count | About 330,000 words of primary text |
| Printing | Printed in the USA |
| Shipping | Free in the United States, ships in 7 to 12 business days |
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The fourteen books of the 1611 King James Apocrypha, the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Jasher chapters 1 to 47, the Didache, the Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Every one is complete except Jasher, and the Jasher cut is stated inside the book.
Jasher runs 91 chapters. Printing all of it would push this volume past what a single binding will hold. Chapters 1 to 47 carry the narrative from creation to the death of Isaac, which is the part readers come to Jasher for. The section page in the book says so directly.
No. It holds the books that sat beside the Bible and then left it. There is no Old or New Testament text in this volume.
KJV 1611 for the Apocrypha, R. H. Charles for Enoch, 1912, and Jubilees, 1902, the anonymous 1840 translation for Jasher, Charles H. Hoole, 1894, for the Didache, and M. R. James, 1924, for both Thomas texts. All are in the public domain.
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