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The Apocalypse of Abraham is an apocalyptic Jewish pseudepigrapha (a text whose claimed authorship is uncertain) based on biblical Abraham narratives. It was probably composed in the first or second century, between 70–150 AD.
3 (Greek Apocalypse of) Baruch (Christian utilizing Jewish sources, c. 1st–2nd cent. AD) Apocalypse of Abraham (Jewish primarily, c. 70–150 AD) Apocalypse of Adam (Gnostic derived from Jewish sources from c. the 1st cent. AD) Apocalypse of Elijah (both Jewish and Christian, c. 150–275 AD) Apocalypse of Daniel (present form c. 9th cent. AD ...
The Greek text of the Testament of Abraham is preserved in two quite different recensions: . the long recension, which has a more developed, detailed and linear story, survives in about thirty manuscripts, among which the more important are A, [1] E [2] and B. [3]
In common usage, however, the term pseudepigrapha is often used by way of distinction to refer to apocryphal writings that do not appear in printed editions of the Bible, as opposed to the texts listed above. Examples [54] include: Apocalypse of Abraham; Apocalypse of Moses; Letter of Aristeas; Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah; Joseph and Aseneth
Bruce Codex contains the first and second Books of Jeu and three fragments – an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst". Codex Tchacos, 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas, the First Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a fragment of Allogenes.
Some of these books are considered sacred in certain Christian denominations and are included in their versions of the Old Testament. The Jewish apocrypha is distinctive from the New Testament apocrypha and Christian biblical apocrypha as it is the only one of these collections which works within a Jewish theological framework.
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2 Baruch is a Jewish apocryphal text thought to have been written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE, after the destruction of the Temple in CE 70. It is attributed to the biblical figure Baruch ben Neriah (c. 6th century BC) and so is associated with the Old Testament, but not regarded as scripture by Jews or by most Christian groups.