My LORD’s BibleLost Books of the Bible
The scriptures that were left out — read them for yourself, in full.
“Lost books of the Bible” is a loose name for the many Jewish and early Christian writings that circulated alongside scripture but were left out of the Protestant canon — some kept by the Catholic and Orthodox churches, some preserved only in the Ethiopian Bible, some surviving only in fragments and ancient translations. None of them were truly lost: they were copied, quoted, and read for centuries.
This collection gathers the ones this site carries in complete, public-domain translations — 1 Enoch (quoted in the Letter of Jude) and Jubilees, both still scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament apocrypha. Every book is here in full, chapter by chapter, cross-referenced against the canonical text.
87 books
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
- 1 Enoch
- 2 Enoch
- The Sibylline Oracles
- The Revelation of Esdras
- The Apocalypse of Sedrach
- 2 Baruch
- 3 Baruch (Greek Apocalypse of Baruch)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham
- Testament of Job
- Testament of Abraham (Version I)
- Testament of Abraham (Version II)
- The Assumption of Moses
- The Testament of Solomon
- The Letter of Aristeas
- Jubilees
- Ascension of Isaiah
- Joseph and Asenath
- The Revelation of Moses (Life of Adam and Eve)
- The First Book of Adam and Eve
- The Second Book of Adam and Eve
- Biblical Antiquities (Pseudo-Philo)
- The Ladder of Jacob
- The Narrative of Zosimus (History of the Rechabites)
- The Story of Ahikar
- The Words of Ahikar (Aramaic Papyrus)
- 4 Maccabees
- Psalms of Solomon
- Odes of Solomon
New Testament Apocrypha
- The Gospel according to the Hebrews (Fragments)
- The Gospel of the Ebionites (Fragments)
- The Gospel according to the Egyptians (Fragments)
- The Gospel of Philip (Fragment Quoted by Epiphanius)
- The Traditions of Matthias (Fragments)
- The Gospel of Peter
- The Preaching of Peter (Fragments)
- Sayings of Jesus (Papyri Oxyrhynchus 654, 1 and 655)
- Fragments of Unknown Gospels (Papyri)
- The Egerton Gospel (Papyrus Egerton 2)
- Sayings of Jesus (Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575)
- Agrapha: Sayings of Jesus Not in the Gospels
- Protevangelium of James
- Infancy Gospel of Thomas
- The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
- The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy
- Gospel of Nicodemus, Part I: The Acts of Pilate
- Gospel of Nicodemus, Part II: The Descent into Hell
- The Gospel (Questions) of Bartholomew
- The Book of the Resurrection of Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle
- The Book of the Resurrection of Christ (Paris Fragments)
- Acts of John
- The Repose of Saint John the Evangelist and Apostle
- Acts of Peter
- Acts of Paul and Thecla
- The Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul
- The Third Epistle to the Corinthians
- Acts of Andrew (Fragment and Martyrdom)
- Acts of Thomas
- The Consummation of Thomas
- Acts of Peter and Paul
- Acts of Peter and Andrew
- Acts of Andrew and Matthias (in the City of the Man-eaters)
- Acts and Martyrdom of Matthew
- Acts of Philip
- Acts of Thaddaeus
- Martyrdom of Bartholomew
- Acts of Barnabas
- The Letters of Christ and Abgarus
- The Epistle to the Laodiceans
- The Correspondence of Paul and Seneca
- The Epistle of the Apostles
- The Apocalypse of Peter
- The Apocalypse of Paul
- The Apocalypse of Thomas
- The Apocryphal Revelation of John
- The Mysteries of Saint John the Apostle and Holy Virgin