THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF EDEN

The Forgotten Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-century and 18th-century English translations of some Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and New Testament Apocrypha, some of which were assembled in the 1820s, and then republished with the current title in 1926.

Rutherford Hayes Platt, in the preface to his 1963 reprint of The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden states:

"First issued in 1926, this is the most popular collection of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature ever published."

The Forgotten Books of Eden, includes a translation originally published in 1882 of the "First and Second Books of Adam and Eve", translated first from ancient Ethiopic to German by Ernest Trumpp and then into English by Solomon Caesar Malan, and a number of items of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, such as reprinted in the second volume of R.H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913).

This is a popularized translation of the OT pseudepigrapha, quasi-Biblical writings which never achieved canonical status (or inclusion in any of the official Apocrypha). This isn't to say that these documents are forgeries, just that for one reason or another they were not considered part of the Biblical text by the first millenium (C.E.) compilers. This book contains translations of all of the texts found in volume I of the weighty Oxford University Press Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, without any of the apparatus.

Contents of this app include:
✝️ The Letter of Aristeas

✝️ Fourth Book of Maccabees

✝️ The Story of Ahikar

✝️ The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs:-
❇️ Testament of Reuben
❇️Testament of Simeon
❇️Testament of Levi
❇️The Testament of Judah
❇️The Testament of Issachar
❇️The Testament of Zebulun
❇️The Testament of Dan
❇️The Testament of Naphtali
❇️The Testament Of Gad
❇️The Testament of Asher
❇️The Testament of Joseph
❇️The Testament of Benjamin

Other key Apocryphal books namely - The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve;
The Psalms and Odes of Solomon; and The Book of the Secrets of Enoch are published as stand-alone apps in our Google Play Store.

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