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THE BOOK OF JUBILEES

Scripture at Qumran, canon in Ethiopia to this day, and left out of every Bible printed in the West. Complete, all 50 chapters, in your hands.

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The Book They Left Out

The book was never lost. It was shelved.

Fifty chapters. The entire story from Creation to Sinai, retold by the Angel of the Presence to Moses on the mountain. The fall of the Watchers. The giants. The 364-day calendar the Temple actually kept. The covenants, dated to the year, the month, and the day.

When the Dead Sea Scrolls were opened in 1947, Jubilees sat among them in more copies than nearly every book of the Hebrew Bible. The community at Qumran treated it as scripture. Ethiopia never stopped treating it as scripture. Only the West forgot it.

Somebody chose your table of contents. Read the evidence and decide for yourself.

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Inside This Edition

More than a reprint. A restoration.

Contents: introduction, prologue, five parts, both appendices

The five parts of Jubilees, explained

Introduction, Prologue, then the fifty chapters in five movements: Creation and the Fathers, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and Egypt, Moses and the Passover. Two appendices close the book: the calendar guide and a note on the Ethiopian canon that preserved it.

The 364-day calendar, a reader's guide

Appendix A walks through the reckoning this book insists was written on the heavenly tablets: 364 days, four seasons of thirteen weeks, every festival fixed to the same weekday forever. Drawn entirely from the text itself, with the chapter and verse cited.

The map most readers never get.
Appendix A: The 364-Day Calendar, a reader's guide, first page as printed
Introduction: Why This Book Was Removed, first page as printed

"Why it was removed": the real history

No invented conspiracies. The sourced introduction tells the documented story of how Jubilees fell out of the Western canon, survived in the Ethiopian church, and returned to the West, with every source named and dated.

Macro detail: the gold winged-book seal of the cover
The Object Itself

Built like it matters.

Format6 × 9″ casebound hardcover
PagesApprox. 300 pages, cream book paper
CoverOxblood with gold double frame and winged-book seal, printed ornamental design
TextThe complete Book of Jubilees, all 50 chapters
TranslationR. H. Charles (Oxford, 1917), newly typeset, honestly attributed
TypographySet in EB Garamond with display lines in Cormorant Garamond
ExtrasSourced "Why This Book Was Removed" introduction · Ethiopian canon note · First Printing numbered limitation page
MadePrinted and bound to order · ships in ~2 weeks, tracked

Each copy is printed and bound individually for you. Small variations are the nature of a made-to-order book.

Before You Buy Any Book of Jubilees

Why not the $12 Amazon version?

Search results are full of cheap reprints with invented author names and "88 books" claims. Here is exactly what you're comparing.

This Edition Typical "88 Books" Reprint
The text ✓Complete: all 50 chapters ✗Fragments, filler, and padding
Translator ✓Named: R. H. Charles, 1917 ✗Fake or missing author names
Typesetting ✓Newly set, readable book type ✗Shrunken scans of old pages
Reader's guide ✓Sourced introduction + canon note ✗None
Edition claims ✓Honest: every source named & dated ✗Invented "88 books of the Bible"

The "88 books" and "complete Ethiopian Bible" claims sold on marketplace listings have been publicly disputed by Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church sources. Every row in this table is true of the actual products and sourceable.

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R. H. Charles, D.Litt., D.D.

Oxford scholar and the modern world's foremost authority on Second Temple apocalyptic literature. His translation of the Book of Jubilees, published by the Clarendon Press in 1917, has been the recognized scholarly standard for over a century. It is the text most cheap reprints copy without credit. This edition uses it openly, names it, and dates it.

Provenance, in full

  • Text: The Book of Jubilees, complete, all 50 chapters
  • Translation: R. H. Charles, The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)
  • Original languages: Hebrew → Geʽez (Ethiopic) transmission
  • Survival: preserved complete in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • This edition: newly typeset and published by The Nephilim Archive, MMXXVI; sources printed inside the book

The suppressed canon is having its loudest century since the canon closed: debated on the biggest podcasts in the world, taught in seminaries, and the subject of documentaries with hundreds of millions of views. This is the book they're all talking about. (We name the phenomenon. No one has endorsed this edition, and we won't pretend otherwise.)

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Why We Made This

We went looking for a Book of Jubilees worth owning and found a market full of fakes: invented author names, "88 lost books" that never existed, photocopied pages you can barely read.

So we built the edition we wanted: the complete text, honestly attributed, typeset with care, printed and bound to order. Every claim on this page survives the same scrutiny we point at the counterfeits.

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Questions

Everything you'd want to know

Is this the complete Book of Jubilees?

Yes: all 50 chapters, unabridged, from the R. H. Charles translation. "Complete" is the whole point: most cheap reprints sell fragments padded with filler, or invent extra "lost books" that don't exist.

Which translation is it?

R. H. Charles (Oxford, 1917), the scholar whose translation has been the recognized standard for over a century. It's the same text many reprints copy without credit; we name it, date it, and typeset it properly.

When does it ship?

We ship free to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia: shipping is included in the price, however many copies you order. Your copy is printed and bound to order. That is what makes the First Printing a real edition, not warehouse stock. Allow about 2 weeks from order to delivery, with tracking the whole way. The digital edition is delivered instantly, so you can start reading tonight.

Is this a religious product? Is it endorsed by a church?

No. The Nephilim Archive is an independent press. The Book of Jubilees is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition and a historical text everywhere else. We present it with honest provenance and let you decide what it means. No church, scholar, or podcast has endorsed this edition, and we'll never imply otherwise.

What if I don't love it?

The Read-It-First Guarantee: write to us at info@nephilimarchive.com within 30 days of delivery and we refund the purchase price in full. No forms, no return shipping, no questions. Keep the book.

Is the cover real gold foil?

No, and we will say so proudly rather than let you find out later. The gold frame and winged-book seal are a printed ornamental design on a matte casewrap cover. A foil-stamped collector's edition may come later; First Printing owners will hear about it first.

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