Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by Jews, especially during the Second Temple period, not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized.
More Psalms of David (Jewish psalms from c. 3rd cent. BC to 100 AD) Prayer of Manasseh (sometimes in Apocrypha, Jewish from c. early 1st cent. AD) Psalms of Solomon (Jewish, c. 50–5 BC) Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers (Jewish, c. 2nd–3rd cent. AD) Prayer of Joseph (Jewish, c. 70–135) Prayer of Jacob (mostly lost Jewish document from c. 4th ...
The Jewish apocrypha is distinctive from the New Testament apocrypha and biblical apocrypha as it is the only one of these collections that works within a Jewish theological framework. [ 30 ] Although Orthodox Jews believe in the exclusive canonization of the current 24 books in the Hebrew Bible , they also consider the Oral Torah , which they ...
The Jewish apocrypha is distinctive from the Christian Apocrypha and biblical apocrypha as it is the only one of these collections which works within a Jewish theological framework. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The Assumption of Moses, also known as the Testament of Moses (Hebrew עליית משה Aliyah Mosheh), is a 1st-century Jewish apocryphal work. It contains secret prophecies Moses revealed to Joshua before passing leadership of the Israelites to him. It is characterized as a "testament", meaning the final speech of a dying person, Moses. [1]
The Book of Jubilees [a] is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1,341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Jubilees is considered one of the pseudepigrapha by the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches. [1]
The Life of Adam and Eve, also known in its Greek version as the Apocalypse of Moses (Ancient Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Μωϋσέως, romanized: Apokalypsis Mōuseōs; Biblical Hebrew: ספר אדם וחוה), is a Jewish apocryphal group of writings.
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, ed. Robert Henry Charles (Oxford Univ. Press 1913) volume 2 (pseudepigrapha) The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs translated from the Editor's Greek text, Robert Henry Charles (London, 1908) Ancient Testaments of the Patriarchs, by Ken Johnson