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Author : M de Jonge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004664467
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Studies on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by M de Jonge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by Robert Henry Charles and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Dixon Slingerland
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by H. Dixon Slingerland and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 1977 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. H. Charles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357621
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Greek Versions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by R. H. Charles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. H. Charles (1855-1931) was Professor of Biblical Greek at Trinity College Dublin (1898-1906), He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1906, and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1910. In 1925 he was the first recipient of the British Academy Medal for Biblical Studies. Charles also received honorary degrees from the Universities of Belfast in 1923 and Oxford in 1928. His publications include: 'The Apocalypse of Baruch, ' 'The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, ' and 'The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English' (2 vols.)
Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047427173
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Paradise Interpreted written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on the representations of Paradise in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28) also deals with the reception of the biblical accounts in early Jewish writings (Enochic texts, the Book of Jubilees, Qumran texts) in Rabbinics and Kabbalah, early mainstream Christianity and in early Christian apocryphal and Gnostic literature. Two further chapters are devoted to views of Paradise in the Christian Middle Ages. The volume concludes with the interpretation of Paradise in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by Robert Henry Charles and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330872796
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by Robert Henry Charles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs The many laborious years of study of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs see at last their close in the present volume. The labour involved has been very great, at times indeed oppressive, but it has not been without its own compensations; for the toil has been frequently lightened by the joys of discovery, and the task of research has been often one of sheer delight. The pleasures of foxhunting are not to be compared with those of the student in full quest of some truth, some new fact showing itself for the first time within his intellectual horizon. But to return. Many of the problems arising from our text had hitherto been wholly unattempted, or else had been wrongly solved in the past - in large part owing in earlier years to the lack of documentary authorities, and in later years to the large demand on the scholar's time that the mastery of these would have entailed. Short but valuable contributions and suggestions have recently been made by Schnapp, Conybeare, Kohler, Gaster, and Bousset, and not a few of the conclusions arrived at by these scholars have been confirmed by my own investigations. The main questions as regards the date, original language, and object of the author, are, I am convinced, now practically settled beyond the range of dispute. Other questions arise in the text that call for further study and research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : S N Strutt
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782229647
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Insights written by S N Strutt and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The verses with extensive commentaries, references, and ideas for follow-up. This book is Based on the Apocryphal Book of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, which were originally written around the 16-17 Century BC or around 3700 years ago, by the 12 sons of Jacob, who himself was also known as ‘Israel’. ‘Israel’ is the Hebrew name Yisrael, meaning ‘God contends’, or ‘one who struggles with God’. Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs covers the whole panorama of the nation of Israel from Abraham to the Messiah and on to Eternity. It is one of the most important ancient manuscripts, apparently re- written between 107 and 137 B.C. from much older manuscripts. Until 1885 many of the apocryphal books used to be in the KJV of the Bible. Many of the apocryphal books can still be found in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles to this day.
Author : Marinus de Jonge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496513
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature written by Marinus de Jonge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary witnesses of the writings called Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament are, in great majority, of Christian provenance. It has been customary for scholars to look for an originally Jewish form of the documents, reflecting Jewish life and thought in the period between 200 BCE and 100 CE. In this volume, M. de Jonge argues that these writings should, first of all, be studied as documents relevant for Christians. This volume incorporates essays written earlier by the author as well as a number of new chapters. The first part deals with general questions concerning the transmission of the pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament whereas the second part has a particular focus on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve.
Author : Ken Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975887742
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Ancient Testaments of the Patriarchs written by Ken Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographies from the Dead Sea Scrolls The Talmud teaches that the ancient patriarchs were all prophets, and that each one of them left testaments for their descendants to read. These contain commands for their children, moral lessons, and prophecy. This legend is not only repeated among the Essene community, but fragments of twenty such records have been found in the Dead Sea scrolls! In this book you will read for yourself the testaments of Enos (Adam's grandson), Enoch, Lamech (Noah's father), Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Levi, Judah, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin, Kohath (son of Levi, and father of Amram), Amram (father of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam), and Aaron. You will see many extra-biblical prophecies of the Messiah, including Aaron's warning about the Messiah's First Coming. Brought to you by Bible Facts Ministries, biblefacts.org
Author : Richard (of St. Victor)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809121229
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Twelve Patriarchs ; The Mystical Ark ; Book Three of The Trinity written by Richard (of St. Victor) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the writings of the man who was the great link between the early Christian mystics and the mystical awakening in medieval Europe. Richard (?-1173) was born in Scotland and joined the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris, where he became Superior and Prior.
Author : M. de Jonge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by M. de Jonge and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M de Jonge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004675531
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by M de Jonge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scriptural Research Institute
Publisher : Scriptural Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 198960482X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Testament of Judah written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Testament of Judah, like the other Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, is considered to be a Jewish work that was added to by Christians in the Christian era. It is unclear when it comes from, however, fragments of the Testaments of Judah and and Naphtali have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in Hebrew, dating to between 37 BC and 44 AD. Given the number of references to primordial gods, it is unlikely to be the work of a Pharisee, and was likely translated into Hebrew from Aramaic or Greek. As it has some of the same anti-Levitical content as the Testament of Levi, it was likely a text written by the Tobian Jews mentioned in 2nd Maccabees, that lived in Seleucid controlled regions.
Author : Anon E. Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8829583103
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (295 download)
Download or read book THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS - the biographies of 12 giants of the ancient world written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are twelve biographies of the Patriarchs written between 107 B.C. and 137 B.C. They are a forceful exposition, showing how a Pharisee with a rare gift of writing secured the biographies of the 12 greatest men of ancient times. "There were intellectual giants in those days" and the Twelve Patriarchs were the Intellectual Giants! Each tells his life story and when he is on his deathbed he calls all his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about him, and proceeds without reservation to lay bare his experiences for the moral guidance of his hearers. If he fell into sin he tells all about it and then counsels them not to err as he did. If he was virtuous, he shows what rewards were his. When you look beyond the unvarnished--almost brutally frank--passages of the text, you will discern a remarkable attestation of the expectations of the Messiah which existed a hundred years before Christ. And there is another element of rare value in this strange series. As Dr. R. H. Charles says in his scholarly work on the Pseudepigrapha: its ethical teaching "has achieved a real immortality by influencing the thought and diction of the writers of the New Testament, and even those of our Lord. This ethical teaching, which is very much higher and purer than that of the Old Testament, is yet its true spiritual child and helps to bridge the chasm that divides the ethics of the Old and New Testaments."
Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333821050
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Henry Charles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs The object of this series of translations is primarily to furnish students with short, cheap, and handy text-books, which, it is hoped, will facilitate the study of the particular texts in class under com petent teachers. But it is also hoped that the volumes will be acceptable to the general reader who may be interested in the subjects with which they deal. It has been thought advisable, as a general rule, to restrict the notes and comments to a small compass; more especially as, in most cases, excellent works of a more elaborate character are available. Indeed, it is much to be desired that these translations may have the effect of inducing readers to study the larger works. Our principal aim, in a word, is to make some difficult texts, important for the study of Christian origins, more generally accessible in faithful and scholarly translations. In most cases these texts are not available in.a cheap and handy form. In one or two cases texts have been included of books which are available in the official Apocrypha; but in every such case reasons exist for putting forth these texts in a new translation, with an Introduction, in this Series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Scriptural Research Institute
Publisher : Scriptural Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 1989604919
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Collection written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the crusades, Latin translations of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs began to circulate in Western Europe, which were considered to be authentic testaments written by the children of Jacob until the Protestant reformation. During the Protestant reformation the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs were generally been discredited as Christian era forgeries, and stopped being used by Catholics and Protestants. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs continued to be viewed as authentic in orthodox countries, and were integrated into the Oskan Armenian Orthodox Bible in 1666. Scholarly analysis of the testaments in the 1800s led to the conclusion that the testaments began as Pharisee texts, written in Hebrew, sometime the before 200 AD, when they were expanded by the Christian monks on Mount Athos. Since the discovery of fragments of four of the testaments among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pharisee view has been generally discredited. The oldest fragments discovered so far date to between 135 and 37 BC, and are written in Aramaic, which make it unlikely that they were written by a Pharisee. Additionally, the contents of the testaments are no longer viewed as being consistent with the Pharisee's theology, as they include a number of references to Greek gods, making the testaments more likely to be a Sadducee text, or from another Jewish sect. A number of references within the testaments point to an origin in the Seleucid Empire. The testaments repeatedly reference the Book of Enoch, or the Watchers from the Book of Enoch, as well as the Book of Job, and Satan as an individual instead of a descriptive term, which is consistent with the Book of Job, the likely source is the Tobian Jews (Τουβιανοὺς Ιουδαίους) mentioned in 2nd Maccabees, that lived in Seleucid controlled regions. It is unclear where the Tobian Jews lived, however, according to Eusebius, writing circa 300 AD, in local lore Job lived in the Arabian town of Karnaia. The location of Karnaia is unknown today, however is believed to have once been in what is modern southern Syria, and would have been in the Seleucid Empire when the testaments were likely written. The original work appears to be an anti-Levitical text, which dismissed the Levitical priesthood, and pointed to an alternative priesthood, which is consistent with the division between the priesthood of Ezra and Tobiah referred to in the Septuagint's 1st Ezra.
