The whole first-century library, cross-referenced to itself.
Fifteen volumes, built as one shelf. Every verse stands beside the passages that stand behind it, quoted out in full on the same page, so the New Testament, the books the apostles read, and the men they taught all open together.
Swipe across the shelf, tap a spine to open it
Read the New Testament closely and you keep walking into a room you were never shown. Jude quotes Enoch by name. Peter has spirits in prison. Paul names Beliar. The Gospels speak of the age to come as though you already know what that is. None of it is explained, because none of it needed explaining. The men who wrote it were writing to people who had already read the other books.
Those books are all in print. So are the letters of the men the apostles taught. This shelf prints the join: one page where a verse stands beside the Old Testament passage behind it, the Second Temple book it takes the picture from, the New Testament line that later picks it up, and the disciple of an apostle who repeats it in the next generation.
"Everything you need to see it, gathered on one page."
That is the whole idea. The sources themselves, in their own words, quoted in full and set where you can see them together, every one of them checked against the original.
The verse runs down one column. Beside it, each in its own card, sits every passage that stands behind it, quoted in full from the source and tagged by where it comes from. Every parallel is checked by hand against the original before it is printed.
Swipe across to read · 1 Enoch 15, with its New Testament and Second Temple parallels quoted beside it
from the finished interior of Volume XV
The law, the prophets and the writings the apostles preached out of, in the King James text.
What the Nine wrote. On a Second Temple page, this is the column that shows you where a New Testament line came from.
Enoch, Jubilees, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Damascus Document, the Apocrypha. The books that were in the room when the New Testament was written.
The men the apostles taught, and the generations right after them, from Clement and Ignatius through the writers before Nicaea. One column, gathering everyone who kept close to the doctrine of the New Testament.
Alongside the four witnesses, a fifth mark ties a verse to one of the Nine Pillars, the load-bearing doctrines of the New Testament laid out in Volume I. The Enoch volume carries sixteen of them.
Every edition is built by one engine off one set of sources, so a card in Enoch that points at Jubilees pulls the real Jubilees text out of the Jubilees volume. Open either book at that verse and you are standing on the same join, from the other side.
Swipe across to read · The Book of Jubilees, Volume XIII, showing the Old Testament, Second Temple
and Disciples of the Apostles cards on a single opening
Scripture first, then the men the apostles taught, in the order they wrote, then the books that stood behind all of it. Every volume carries the same apparatus, so the shelf grows into one cross-referenced whole.
The Nine Architects of the Faith
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Acts, Romans through Jude, the Revelation of John
The Didache, First Clement, the Seven Epistles of Ignatius, Polycarp to the Philippians, the Fragments of Papias, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Apology of Aristides
The Shepherd of Hermas, Second Clement, the Epistle to Diognetus, the Martyrdom of Polycarp
The First Apology of Justin, the Second Apology, the Martyrdom of Justin, Tatian, Address to the Greeks
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew
Melito of Sardis, On the Passover. Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians and On the Resurrection of the Dead. Theophilus, To Autolycus
Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies, Books I and II
Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies, Books III and IV
Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies Book V, the surviving fragments, the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
Hippolytus of Rome, On Christ and Antichrist and the Refutation of All Heresies Book X. Victorinus of Pettau, Commentary on the Apocalypse
The Book of Jubilees, the Little Genesis, in fifty chapters
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees, the Additions to Esther and Daniel, First and Second Esdras, the Prayer of Manasseh
The Gospel According to Enoch: the Book of the Watchers, the Book of Parables, the Astronomical Book, the Book of Dreams, the Epistle of Enoch
Covers shown are proofs. Volumes ship as they are finished, not in sequence.
Every title is taken from Scripture. Volumes II and III from Luke and from Acts, and Volumes IV through XV from what Christ says to the seven churches. Stand all fifteen on a shelf and the letters in the upper diamonds read down the row, and the letters in the lower ones read down after them.
Volume XV, The Gospel According to Enoch, is out now in paperback and Kindle. Jubilees is close behind it, its interior built to the same standard and its reference set finished and checked.
Jude quotes it. Peter echoes it. The Gospels assume it. This edition sets Enoch with a study margin on every page, tying it to the New Testament, the Old, the other Second Temple writings, and the earliest church.
The R. H. Charles translation, edited by J.D. Murphy
Genesis retold by a writer of the second century before Christ, and the deathbed charges of Jacob's twelve sons. Between them they carry the Watchers, Beliar, the priest from Levi and the king from Judah, and the star out of Jacob, straight into the vocabulary of the New Testament.
The R. H. Charles translation, edited by J.D. Murphy
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Volume I, Primitive Christianity: The Nine Architects of the Faith, is out now, and so is Volume XV, The Gospel According to Enoch.
