The Forbidden Books, Mysteries, & Forgotten Prophecies
It wasn’t Moses, although many still believe it was.
The OT is a composite work, written by several different authorial traditions:
Excluding the political or religious agendas, which often resulted in manipulation across empires, the Old Testament (OT) comprises far more than the mere 39 books listed in the standard Bible. A myriad of texts were omitted from the sanctioned canon for various reasons.
- Book of Jubilees: Offered additional cosmology and a calendar that challenged the authoritative temple.
- Enoch: Revealed spiritual warfare along with divine corruption of marrying angels (“the fallen”) to humans, thus depicting the creation of giants (Nephilim).
- Sirach’s Wisdom and Tobit: Practical texts possessing a hierarchy of morals that were impractical.
- Abraham’s Apocalypse: Utilized love rather than wrath in depicting an earlier relation of God and man.
Why were these texts removed?
- Lack of disdainful portrayal of the supreme being as a distant, authoritarian presence.
- Unearthing the hidden truths exposed regarding angels, power, and divine knowledge.
- Upholding the importance of divinity without priests, rituals, or intermediaries.
These texts highlight a more liberated belief system, granting mystical spirituality, contradicting dominion.
Read: Book of Enoch
Key Alternative Texts & Their Significance
Who chose what was included?
The Old Testament isn’t just inspired – it’s been edited, re-edited, and censored in multiple historical layers.
- Babylonian priests (587-539 BC): During the exile, they sought to rebuild a shattered identity. They edited scripture for one purpose: control through religion.
- Ezra & Nehemiah: Centralized the law and established the first true religious hierarchy.
- Jewish councils and rabbis: Over the centuries, they cut, adjusted, and removed texts that worked against orthodoxy.
- Roman Christianity (100-400 AD): Church fathers chose which OT books to include in the Christian Bible, and which were labeled “heresy”.
The result?
A book that promotes obedience, guilt, and hierarchy – and removes knowledge, freedom, and independent contact with the divine.
