Yes, Patti, many of the books were left out of the Bible...on purpose. The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) existed in the original language and in Greek, of course, but there was no such thing as a canon of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) until bishops met at the Council of Carthage in 397. There they confirmed which books were to be considered divine scriptures and which books were heretical and therefore excluded from the canon.

There are as many interpretation of the bible as there are people reading it, but that does not make the bible itself flawed, now, does it? Yours is not a rational argument. It's like a commuter saying that the 5:00 o'clock train left early because the commuter who ran down the platform at 5:01 missed it and remonstrated to the station agent that he was sure that the train was scheduled to leave at 5:02.

You are fortunate to have visited the Holy Land. Now maybe you would like to read the book whose drama was set against that backdrop.