The LSV Master Collection


The 210-Book Holy Bible, Apocrypha, and Ancient History Master Collection is the largest Scripture and apocryphal collection ever published, featuring all 100 books of the 2024 edition of The Complete Apocrypha®, all 66 books of the Holy Bible, and all 44 historical books of Ancient HistoriaTM, plus additional writings, charts, and maps. It’s the new, literal, easy-to-read, definitive collection of Christian and Jewish [non-gnostic] Scriptures, apocryphal books, and historical works. It’s also the longest single-volume published book in the world at over 2.3 million words, exceeding even the Guinness World Record holder À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust at 1.3 million words.

  • All 39 books of the Old Testament, 27 books of the New Testament, 100 books of the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Apostolic Fathers, Sibylline Oracles, and early Church writings, and 44 early Judeo-Christian historical works, all revised and retranslated into a clean, literal, and easy-to-read translation: the complete LSV collection. This is the largest and most comprehensive collection of non-Gnostic Scriptures, apocryphal books, and historical works ever produced (210 books in total). This substantially exceeds the Catholic Bible (73 books), Ethiopian Bible (81 books), and even the Cepher (87 books).

  • Premium hardcover and paperback formats feature elegant, 10-point typeface and minimized verse numbers for a more engrossing, novel-like reading experience. Thick white pages are used for high contrast and minimal bleed-through.

  • The 100 included apocryphal works contain approximately 10% more material than the entire Holy Bible, and Ancient Historia contains 90% as much, thus this complete collection is approximately three times the size of the 66 canonical books present in most Bibles. Additional fragments, writings, charts, and maps are included in an appendix section.

  • Includes the Catholic and Orthodox Deuterocanon material, all three of the books of Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees, the Aramaic Book of Giants, the testaments, apocalypses, pseudepigrapha, New Testament-era works, the Apostolic Fathers, Sibylline Oracles, early Church writings, historical works of Josephus and Eusebius, and much more.

  • Utilization of the transliterated Tetragrammaton in the Old Testament. All uppercase LORD is used in the New Testament and Apocrypha when a reference to YHWH is likely.


The Literal Standard Version (LSV) is a modern translation that stays true to the original manuscripts. This collection includes all 66 books of the Holy Bible, as well as Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, 1–4 Baruch, 1–4 Maccabees, Apocryphal Esther, Apocryphal Psalms, Apocryphal Daniel (including Azariah, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon), 1–2 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (12 works), Jubilees, 1–3 Enoch, Book of Giants (from the DSS), Jasher, Life of Adam and Eve, Book of Creation, Testament of Abraham, Testament of Isaac, Testament of Jacob, Ladder of Jacob, Joseph and Asenath, Testament of Job, Testament of Moses, Testament of Solomon, Psalms of Solomon, Lives of the Prophets, Words of Gad the Seer, Ascension of Isaiah, Revelation of Abraham, Revelation of Elijah, Revelation of Zephaniah, Apocryphon of Ezekiel, Epistle of Aristeas, Didache, Revelation of Peter, Epistle of Barnabas, 3 Corinthians, 1–2 Clement, Seven Epistles of Ignatius (seven works), Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus, The Shepherd of Hermas, Odes of Peace, Apology of Aristides, Sibylline Oracles (13 books), Epistles of King Abgar and Jesus, Epistle of the Apostles, Justin Martyr’s First and Second Apologies, Apology to Marcus Aurelius, Discourses of Melito, A Plea for the Christians, Apology to Autolychus (three books), Discourse on Hades, Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews and Against Apion (22 books), Eusebius’ Chronicon and Ecclesiastical History (22 books), and much more. The LSV is published by Covenant Press, the publishing arm of the Covenant Christian Coalition.

You can purchase The 210-Book Master Collection from the following booksellers:






Eden.co.uk (United Kingdom)

Booktopia (Australia)

Medimops (Germany)

Saxo.com (Denmark)

Adlibris.com (Sweden)

For a limited time, you can get a 25% discount when purchased through Ingram here.


The 210-Book Holy Bible, Apocrypha, and Ancient History Master Collection is the size of many concordances, including The New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance. The large format allows for larger typeface (10-point) compared to the standard LSV and Complete Apocrypha paperbacks (9-point). The handsome hard binding includes a black marble print with gold-colored trim and lettering. Inside you will be greeted with a crisp, easy-to-read serif typeface with minimized superscript verse numbering and an elegant triple-column layout that provides an engrossing and traditional reading experience. The premium paperback is formatted similarly. It is also designed to lay flat:


Below you can see The 210-Book Holy Bible, Apocrypha, and Ancient History Master Collection compared to the Protocanon (66 books, consisting of the Tanakh/Old Testament and the New Testament), the Catholic Bible (73 books), the Orthodox Bible (76–78 books), the Ethiopian Bible (81 books), and the Cepher (87 books). Note that some of works below are composed of multiple books (e.g., Josephus’ Antiquities is a collection of 20 books).


Notes:

1, 2, 3 The Ethiopic Bible of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches contains roughly 81 books, although how these books are arranged and divided between narrower and broader canons is disputed. The Ethiopic Bible lacks 1–4 Maccabees, but has an alternative account of the Maccabees unique to the Ethiopian tradition called Meqabyan, in three books.

4, 5 The Ethiopic Bible contains an Ethiopic Clement that differs significantly from the more widely known 1 and 2 Clement (written in Greek).

6 The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches recognize Josippon, a late, 10th-century work loosely based on Josephus’ Antiquities, but unlike Josephus’ original work, Josippon is pseudepigraphal, unoriginal, and composed some 900 years after the genuine works of Josephus.

7, 8 The Eastern Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox Bibles contain Psalm 151, but lack Psalms 152–155.