Tag: Pseudepigrapha

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Revelation of Esdras, The

WORD AND REVELATION OF ESDRAS,THE HOLY PROPHET AND BELOVED OF GOD. IT came to pass in the thirtieth year, on the twenty- second of the month, I was in my house. And I cried out and said to the Most High: Lord, give the glory,(1) in order that I may see Thy mysteries. And when it was night, there cam...

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Apocalypse of Moses, A fragment of the

From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old TestamentR.H. CharlesOxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913 i 1 This is the story of Adam and Eve after they had gone out of Paradise. And Adam knew his wife2 Eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. And3 Eve c...

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Letter of Aristeas, The

R.H. Charles-EditorOxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913 SINCE I have collected Material for a memorable history of my visit to Eleazar the High priest of the Jews, and because you, Philocrates, as you lose no opportunity of reminding me, have set great store upon receiving an account of the motives and ...

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Martyrdom of Isaiah, The

From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old TestamentR.H. CharlesOxford: Clarendon Press, 1913 [Chapter 1] 1. And it came to pass in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah that he 2. called Manasseh his son. Now he was his only one. And he called him into the presence of I...

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Adam and Eve, Life of -- translation of the Slavonic version

From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old TestamentR.H. CharlesOxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913 xxviii 1 And we sat together before the gate of paradise, Adam weeping with his face bent down to the earth, lay on the ground lamenting. And seven days passed by and we had nothing2 to eat and we...

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Testament of Solomon

(translated from the codex of the Paris Library, after the edition of Fleck, Wissensch. Reise, bd. ii. abth. 3) Greek title:-- 1. Testament of Solomon, son of David, who was king in Jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth. By means of them als ...

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Second Treatise of the Great Seth, The

Translated by Roger A. Bullard and Joseph A. Gibbons And the perfect Majesty is at rest in the ineffable light, in the truth of the mother of all these, and all of you that attain to me, to me alone who am perfect, because of the Word. For I exist with all the greatness of the Spirit, which is a fri...

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Jubilees, The Book of

From "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament"R.H. CharlesOxford: Clarendon Press, 1913INTRODUCTION 1. SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK. The Book of Jubilees is in certain limited aspects the most important book in this volume for the student of religion. Without it we could of course have in ...