The Library

Every collection this site carries beyond the 66 books of the King James Version — each in a complete, public-domain translation, chapter by chapter, cross-referenced against the canonical text. Looking for the KJV itself? Start on the home page. New to these books? The Learn guides explain where each collection came from.

Lost Books of the Bible

The scriptures that were left out — read them for yourself, in full.

87 books

The Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical Books)

The books in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles that most Protestant Bibles leave out.

17 books

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

Jewish and early Christian scripture-like writings from the centuries around the New Testament.

40 books

New Testament Apocrypha

Gospels, acts, and revelations that never entered the New Testament canon.

47 books

Nag Hammadi and Gnostic Writings

Coptic-language texts from the Nag Hammadi library and related Gnostic tradition.

13 books

The Apostolic Fathers and Early Martyr Acts

The first generations of Christian writing after the apostles, and the martyrs who died for it.

41 books

Church Orders

Ancient manuals of church life — not scripture, but read closely by the churches that kept them.

13 books

History

Sober historical writing from the biblical world — not scripture, not legend.

32 books

Legends and National Epics

Later legendary retellings of biblical history — not scripture, but read for centuries.

4 books

Talmud and Mishnah

The first written code of Jewish oral law and the Talmud of the land of Israel, complete, with the original alongside — rabbinic teaching, not scripture.

108 books

Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)

Three treatises of the Zohar, the central book of Jewish mysticism, in Mathers's 1887 English — not scripture.

4 books

Ceremonial Magic Grimoires

Renaissance/early-modern magic texts, carried here as historical and literary sources — not scripture, and not devotional reading.

3 books

The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible

Books the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church keeps that other Bibles don't.

14 books