SPH Catalog of

Ancient Texts

ABOUT SPH catalog of ancient texts

Where a pause can hold a story.
Where we write to give Him glory.

Selah Publishing House is a faith-rooted imprint devoted to sacred storytelling—where writing becomes offering, and every word is shaped to honor the One who still speaks.

We publish biblical fiction, devotionals, sabbath meditations, and poems that stir remembrance, awaken hope, and walk the ancient path with reverence.

But here, the library stretches even deeper.

-1 –

In a time when many sacred writings were forgotten, silenced, or pushed to the edges of canon, we are opening the scrolls again.

Through the Catalog of Ancient Texts, we reintroduce the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha—not as curiosities, but as part of the soul-memory of a people shaped by exile, longing, and divine encounter. These are the stories that whispered between prophets. The songs sung when the temple stood empty.

-2 –

The visions dreamt when the heavens felt far.

We do not claim they are Scripture.
But we honor them as sacred echoes—stories worth listening to again.

Selah is a pause.
A rest.
A call to remember the forgotten flame.

Welcome to Selah Publishing House.
May every page lead you closer to the Voice that never left.

-3 –

📚 The Selah Library is just beginning.
Come back often as we add more books, study resources, and beautifully restored replicas of sacred texts.
Want to stay connected? Share your name and email to receive quiet updates from our library and store as new scrolls are released.

Long before the canon was closed, before chapters were numbered or scrolls were shelved as complete, there were books that clung to the edges of the holy fire—texts not forgotten, but set aside. The Apocrypha is their name now, but once they were read aloud in temples, cherished in exile, and copied with reverent hands beside the prophets and psalms.

These are not fictions. They are wisdoms. Histories. Prayers whispered from the shadows between empires.

Here live the tears of Tobit, the sword of Judith, the lament of Baruch, the courage of Maccabees, the ancestral counsel of Sirach.

Not scripture, and yet sacred.
Not canon, and yet kept.

The Apocrypha are the forgotten embers of a still-burning altar—books that held the breath of the people when silence fell heavy, when no new prophet came, and the temple stood broken. They are Scripture’s echo, its threshold, its echoing chamber of longing.

Read them not for doctrine alone, but for the ache of a people between revelations. For in them, you will hear the sound of holy waiting.

These are the scrolls whispered in the wilderness, carried in jars, seen in dreams. The Pseudepigrapha—books bearing names that history calls false, yet hearts knew as familiar. Not forgeries, but offerings. Sacred stories wrapped in old names: Enoch, Adam, Abraham, Ezra, Baruch.

These texts walked beside Scripture but never crossed its gates. They were visions too wild for canon, too full of stars and angels and trembling mountains.

Here you’ll find The Book of Enoch, where the heavens open and Watchers fall; The Life of Adam and Eve, where sorrow speaks from east of Eden; The Apocalypse of Abraham, where the sky burns with judgment and covenant; The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, where the dying bless and warn in the breath before silence.

These are not commentaries. They are cries. Not doctrine, but dream.

The Pseudepigrapha are the echoes of sacred imagination—born in exile, shaped by wonder, and preserved by the yearning of a people not yet done with prophecy.

Read them not for certainty, but for the light they cast into Scripture’s shadows. For in them, you may find the breath of God still stirring between the lines.

📜 Reader’s Note

On the Source and Spirit of the Text

The text you are about to read—The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs—comes from one of the earliest collections of sacred storytelling outside the biblical canon. These are the imagined final words of Jacob’s twelve sons: confessions, prophecies, and warnings passed down to future generations.

The version presented here is drawn from a public domain translation published in 1926, in a volume titled The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt Jr. This edition is freely available and preserved online at sacred-texts.com.

no content added yet

Featured Products

Where can you find us?

Your Favorite Platforms

Dive in!!
Download FREE chapters.  Meet the author, get behind the scenes,
browse the blogs.
Shop the sales.

The Moses Chronicles: Prelude and Hands that Rock the Cradle can be found in digital and print

Each book can be found at many indie bookstores online and in print internationally.

💬 Contact your local store and just ask: 

“Can you order this book for me through IngramSpark?”

— Author: RR Wekesa
— The Moses Chronicles: Prelude / HTRTC

ISBN: 9781738289165 / 9781738289189