Sacred text banned from the Bible reveals what really happened during Noah's Great Flood

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Sacred text banned from the Bible reveals what really happened during Noah's Great Flood

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By STACY LIBERATORE
March 11, 2025



A book banned from the Bible written more than 2,100 years ago could change what Christians believe to be the 'truth' about the Great Flood.

Known as the Book of Jubilees, this ancient text features a more supernatural, detailed and structured explanation of the events of the story of Noah.

While the ancient scripture was discovered around the 1950s, it has resurfaced on social media where Nick Di Fabio shared how 'for generations, church authorities kept it sealed away from believers.'

The Book of Genesis says the flood happened because humanity had become wicked, while the omitted text states it was due to 'the Watchers,' or fallen angels, taking human wives and having giant offspring who devoured everything.

The Book of Jubilees describes the violence and corruption the giants and their descendants brought, such as cannibalization and sinning, leading to widespread evil on Earth.

'And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything,' reads Chapter 10:25.

The Book of Jubilee was discovered in caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, about 15 miles east of Jerusalem.

While the chapters retell the books of Genesis and Exodus, it was not considered canonical by the Jewish and Christian communities because of supernatural elements and lack of spiritual content and apostolic authorship.

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[libertybele]

Interesting  -- no 'apostolic' authorship? 

[roamer_1]

Interesting  -- no 'apostolic' authorship?

Well, it is too old to have apostolic authorship... It's part of the OT psuedepigrapha. And yes, it was found among the DSS, which gave it a ton of credz - though it has been a known text for a long time.

[jmyrlefuller]

Jubilees, like Enoch (with which it overlaps quite a bit), is one of those books of Jewish tradition that the Jews don't recognize as canon. (in general, Protestants recognize the Jewish canon as the complete Old Testament; the Catholics include some extra books in-between, though they don't count Jubilees, either.) The Ethiopians do treat it as canon and there appear to be at least some schools of Jewish society in history that did recognize it.

Curiously, it did prophesy the Messiah, and accurately noted that He would come from the line of Judah.

[Wingnut]

I thought we left this bullshit to TOS to fight over.

[roamer_1]

Jubilees, like Enoch (with which it overlaps quite a bit), is one of those books of Jewish tradition that the Jews don't recognize as canon. (in general, Protestants recognize the Jewish canon as the complete Old Testament; the Catholics include some extra books in-between, though they don't count Jubilees, either.) The Ethiopians do treat it as canon and there appear to be at least some schools of Jewish society in history that did recognize it.

Curiously, it did prophesy the Messiah, and accurately noted that He would come from the line of Judah.

And Jasher, btw... These three (Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher) are quoted by scripture as scripture. THAT makes them interesting, beyond the rather pagan idea of 'canon'.

[Free Vulcan]

The thing is that the book of Jude makes a reference to the book of Enoch, which talks about these very things.

So while not canon, it seems to be recognized by the early Church. Genesis covers the topic obliquely, but it matches up.

However, accepting it would explain alot of things.