Apocalypse of Moses

Apocalypse of Moses
ISBN-10
1989604153
ISBN-13
9781989604151
Category
Religion
Pages
25
Language
English
Published
2019-10-10
Publisher
Scriptural Research Institute
Author
Scriptural Research Institute

Description

The Apocalypse of Moses was a popular early Christian-era work, that is believed to have originally been a Jewish texts, and was then adopted by the earliest Christians. Based on the references to a god above Iaw (Yahweh in Hebrew), the primary god from the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament, it seems unlikely this text was originally written by a Pharisee, as they were enthusiastically promoting their monotheistic doctrine by the mid-2nd-century BC, while the Apocalypse of Moses is believed to date to 1st-century-AD. There is no way to internally date the text, however, based on the number of derivative texts in Latin, Armenian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Syrian, and Arabic, it is accepted as dating to the 1st-century AD at the latest, however, it could be a few centuries older.

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