These Names Should NOT Be in the Bible. How Did Paul Know?

JANNES AND JAMBRES: These Names Should NOT Be in the Bible How Did Paul Know? Two names that do not appear in any book of the Old Testament. Two sorcerers who confronted Moses, replicated the signs of God, and vanished from the biblical narrative without a trace. Until Paul in a Roman cell, writing his final letter called them by name. Where did this information come from? What lost source did Paul know that we no longer possess? And what might a recently discovered manuscript in Ethiopia reveal about the full story of these two magicians? SOURCES: Holy Bible KJV 1611 Dead Sea Scrolls — Damascus Document (CD-A, Column V) Babylonian Talmud — Menachot 85a, Sotah 11a, Chagigah 15a, Shabbat 97a Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Exodus 1:15, 7:11; Numbers 22:22 Midrash Tanchuma — Ki Tissa 19 Zohar — Balak 194 Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres — Papyrus Chester Beatty XVI (ed. Albert Pietersma, Brill, 1994) Papyrus Vindobonensis — 3rd century AD Origen of Alexandria — Contra Celsum IV.51; Commentary on Matthew 27:3–10 Pliny the Elder — Historia Naturalis XXX.II.11 Numenius of Apamea — cited in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica IX.8 Palladius — Historia Lausiaca, 5th century Complete Ethiopian manuscript — identified in 2024 (Jim Davila, University of St Andrews) #biblicalmystery #jannesandjambres #lostmanuscripts #biblicalarcheology #lastdays