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Apocalypse of Abraham

This pseudepigraphon pairs a narrative of the young Abraham rejecting his father's idol-making trade with a later heavenly ascent in which he witnesses the Temple's coming destruction, using Abraham's story to process the same catastrophe driving 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, though the work survives complete only in a later Old Church Slavonic translation of a lost Greek original. Its own place of composition is uncertain, consistent with that layered translation history.

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  • Torah · composed c. 9th-5th century BC

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