APOCRYPHA(7)                                                      APOCRYPHA(7)

NAME
       apocrypha -- texts outside the canon, kept on their own shelf.

DESCRIPTION
       These are witnesses, not canon. Each file opens with its provenance:
       what it is, when it was found, whose translation, and why it sits on
       this shelf instead of in /bible. Read them the way the tradition
       read them at its best: tested, not banned; consulted, not obeyed.
       "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
       are of God." (1 John 4:1)

FORMAT
       Plain text, one verse or manuscript page per line, tab-separated
       reference. grep-friendly:

           curl -s jnous.com/apocrypha/1-enoch.txt | grep "89:2[4-7]"

SEARCH

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA (Second Temple, c. 300 BC - AD 100)
       1 Enoch          The Watchers, the Son of Man, the Animal Apocalypse.
                        Quoted at Jude 14-15. Ethiopian canon. Charles 1917.
       Jubilees         Genesis retold from Sinai in jubilee-cycles. Ethiopian
                        canon; a Qumran favorite. Charles 1902.

NAG HAMMADI & EARLY WITNESSES (found 1945; Coptic, 2nd-4th c. texts)
       Gospel of Thomas   114 sayings, no narrative. Greek fragments by c. 200.
       Gospel of Mary     Mary's vision; Levi defends her against Peter.
       Gospel of Philip   Valentinian anthology: baptism, chrism, bridal chamber.
                        All three: Mark M. Mattison's public-domain translations
                        (gospels.net).

STAGED (public-domain sources identified, not yet built)
       Deuterocanon (KJV 1611): Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach,
       1-2 Maccabees, 2 Esdras.
       Psalms of Solomon 17-18 (the pre-Christian Davidic messiah).
       2 Baruch. Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Odes of Solomon.
       Pistis Sophia (Mead 1896). Greek Thomas fragments (Grenfell-Hunt).
       Blocked on copyright (no public-domain English exists):
       1-3 Meqabyan and the Ethiopian broader-canon NT.

CANON NOTE
       1 Enoch and Jubilees are canon to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
       Church and to no one else; they head this shelf rather than /bible
       so the seam stays visible. (The Ethiopian Bible as a whole has never
       been fully translated into English.) The deuterocanon was printed in the 1611 KJV between the
       testaments; when built, it stays here for the same reason.

SEE ALSO
       bible(7), torah(7)

jnous.com                        2026-08-15                       APOCRYPHA(7)