History Memes

Many books are entirely missing, but not because they were ‘lost’; they were removed from canon, primarily by the Vatican, but by other authorities, too. A Protestant set of them is known as the Apocrypha.

Some of these censored books have been included in various editions. Most were removed because they were controversial for some reason or another. Often the removed texts have as much reason to exist as others that were included, but they were politically problematic.

Amongst my favourites includes a nativity story in which baby Jesus fights a dragon. I feel cheated that version was edited out.