Armenian Apocrypha : the short questionnaire from Adam to Moses / by Michael E. Stone.

Author/creator Stone, Michael E., 1938-
Format Book
PublicationAtlanta : SBL Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxliv, 305 pages ; illustrations ; 23cm.
Subjects

SeriesEarly Judaism and its literature ;
Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 58. ^A418514
Contents The ranking of angels -- Angels and prophets' praise -- Nine ranks of angels and human leaders -- Nine ranks of angels and ecclesiastics -- another ordering of angels and ecclesiastics -- On which day were the angels created? -- Where did he create Adam? -- On which day did Sadayel fall from the garden? -- Adam and Eve in the garden -- Expulsion from Eden up to the flood -- The Sethites and the Cainites: Beginnings -- Noah and the Building of the Ark -- Peoples of the Sons of Noah -- Concerning the construction of the tower -- Concerning Abraham and his sons -- Egypt and Exodus -- The oil of anointing -- Names of the twenty-four prophets.
Abstract "Short Questionnaire, an Armenian question-and-answer text that survives in a seventeenth-century manuscript, draws on Armenian parabiblical traditions to systematically explore biblical events from creation to the exodus. The volume includes Michael E. Stone's translation, extensive commentary, and twenty-seven essays that trace the history of parabiblical concepts and events from the Second Temple and early Christian periods down to the second millennium. Including stories of Satan's fall from the garden, the raven's role in Abel's murder, the burial places of Adam and Eve, and Noah's fourth son, the book forms a dictionary of Armenian parabiblical traditions for scholars and students interested in reception history in early Judaism and Christianity." --Page [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteWith bibliographic references (pages 235-267), ancient sources index (pages 269-286), and general index (pages 287-305).
LanguageIn English; with original Armenian texts also translated into English.
ISBN9781628376173
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