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The patriarchs (Hebrew: אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as "the patriarchs", and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age .
Testament of Job (Jewish, c. late 1st cent. BC) Testaments of the Three Patriarchs (Jewish Testaments of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from c. 100 AD which are linked with the Christian Testament of Isaac and Jacob) Testament of Moses (Jewish, from c. early 1st cent. AD) Testament of Solomon (Jewish, current form c. 3rd cent. AD, but earliest form ...
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Ancient Testaments of the Patriarchs, by Ken Johnson; The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden. [27] The Apocryphal Old Testament, ed. H.F.D. Sparks (1985, Oxford Univ. Press) Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (MS Ff.1.24), [28] a 10th century Greek manuscript in the collections of Cambridge University Library
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]
The historical books are a division of Christian Bibles, grouping 12 (or in some denominations more) books of the Old Testament. [1] [page needed] It includes the Former Prophets from the Nevi'im and two of the ungrouped books of Ketuvim of the Hebrew Bible together with the Book of Ruth and the Book of Esther which in the Hebrew are both found in the Five Megillot.
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List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha; 0–9. ... The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden; M. ... Testaments of the Three Patriarchs;