Open a standard Bible, any translation, and read Joshua 10:13. The text stops mid-battle, points its finger off the page, and asks you a question: Is not this written in the book of Jasher? The Bible assumes you can go check. It cites a source the way a scholar cites a library, and it does this again and again, in Numbers, in Samuel, in Kings, in Chronicles, in Paul's letters, in Jude. This lesson gathers every one of those references and lays them in your hands, and here is what makes it different from every argument you have ever heard about the canon: nothing in this study rests on...
Open a standard Bible, any translation, and read Joshua 10:13. The text stops mid-battle, points its finger off the page, and asks you a question: Is not this written in the book of Jasher? The Bible assumes you can go check. It cites a source the way a scholar cites a library, and it does this again and again, in Numbers, in Samuel, in Kings, in Chronicles, in Paul's letters, in Jude. This lesson gathers every one of those references and lays them in your hands, and here is what makes it different from every argument you have ever heard about the canon: nothing in this study rests on tradition, on a church council, or on this app. Every citation is checkable in the Bible you already own. The scriptures themselves name at least a dozen books that are not between your covers. Some of those books are lost to history, and we will mourn them honestly. Some survive, Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees, and sit in this app's library waiting to be read and tested. We will be careful to say which is which, and careful about what survival does and does not prove. But the headline is settled before we begin, because Yahweh let it be written into the canon itself: the shelf was bigger than 66. Bring...