http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-God-Brothers-Joshua-Hammer/dp/0786886013

http://www.swordsearcher.com

You mean the Apocryphal books…. not purged.

In Christianity, the Apocryphal, or what is also sometimes called the hidden or deuterocanonical books, are mainly a collection of ancient Jewish writings (written somewhere around 200 years before Christ’s birth) that were translated into the LXX (70 or Septuagint) and the Latin Vulgate. The word Apocrypha which is used to describe these writings, was actually coined by the 5th-century scholar named Jerome. These books were not a part of the Masoretic Text (which are copies of the collection of God inspired Hebrew text that the Jews themselves considered canonical), and thus their designation by Jerome as being ‘obscure or hidden’ books. i.e., Hidden or unseen by their absence, or uncommon use by God’s Covenant People. They were Deutero-canonical, or outside of Holy canon.

The problem of course is, why would God keep hidden or apocryphal the very words which were presumably to instruct the Old Testament Jewish congregation? The obvious answer is, He wouldn’t. The Jewish canon does not contain the Apocrypha.

According to this friend there is a story where Jesus meets a giant who helps him across a raging river. It was implied that it was a true giant much larger than a man.

This could cast new meaning on David and Goliath.

Also, there was supposedly purged stories of jesus as a child blinding people who got in his way before he assumed his mantle of saintliness.

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Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Ex 4:24
In the inn – Or “resting place.” See Ge 42:27 note.

Met him, and sought to kill him – Moses was attacked by a sudden and dangerous illness, which he knew was inflicted by God. The word “sought to kill” implies that the sickness, whatever might be its nature, was one which threatened death had it not been averted by a timely act. Zipporah believed that the illness of Moses was due to his having neglected the duty of an Israelite, and to his not having circumcised his own son; the delay was probably owing to her own not unnatural repugnance to a rite, which though practiced by the Egyptians, was not adopted generally in the East, even by the descendants of Abraham and Keturah. Moses appears to have been utterly prostrate and unable to perform the rite himself.

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Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Ex 4:25
Sharp stone – Not “knife,” as in the margin. Zipporah used a piece of flint, in accordance with the usage of the patriarchs. The Egyptians never used bronze or steel in the preparation of mummies because stone was regarded as a purer and more sacred material than metal.

Cast it at his feet – Showing at once her abhorrence of the rite, and her feeling that by it she had saved her husband’s life.

A bloody husband – Literally, “a husband of blood,” or “bloods.” The meaning is: The marriage bond between us is now sealed by blood. By performing the rite, Zipporah had recovered her husband; his life was purchased for her by the blood of her child.