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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]
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.
The fully apocalyptic visions in Daniel 7–12, as well as those in the New Testament's Revelation, can trace their roots to the pre-exilic latter biblical prophets; the sixth century BCE prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah 40–55 and 56–66, Haggai 2, and Zechariah 1–8 show a transition phase between prophecy and apocalyptic literature.
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.
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The work (along with the Syriac version of Cave of Treasures) seems to have influenced the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter, another pseudepigraphical text popular in Syrian Christianity dated to the 9th–10th centuries. [a] The angelology of the third section may have influenced the Book of the Bee, a 13th-century Syriac work. [1]