Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham »

John A. Tvedtnes is a senior resident scholar with the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University. Brian M. Hauglid is assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. John Gee is the William "Bill" Gay Assistant Research Professor of Egyptology at the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts.

Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham represents the first in a series of books in the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) collection at Brigham Young University. Here the authors have assembled and translated more than 100 ancient and medieval stories from their original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Persian, Coptic, and Egyptian sources, all in an effort to piece together the early life of Abraham. This unprecedented compilation sheds new light on the Book of Abraham as an authentic ancient text and will be a welcome resource for biblical and religious studies scholars.

Acknowledgements

Editor's Introduction

Earliest Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham

Hecataeus

Judith

Philo the Epic Poet

Artapanus

Eupolemus

Anonymous Work

Siblline Oracles

Orphica

Jubilees

Pseudo-Philo

Genesis Apocryphon

Damascus Document

Genesis Commentary:  4QCommGen A

Jewish Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham

Philo of Alexandria

Pirqe de Rabbi Eliezer

Josephus

Bahir

Apocolypse of Abraham

4 Ezra

Mishnah

'Abot de Rabbi Nathan

Targum Jonathan

Targum Neofiti 1

Targum Rishon of Esther

Hellenistic Synogogal Prayers

Targum Onqelos

Tanna debe Eliahu

Pesikta Rabbati

Sefer ha-Razim

Sefer Yetzirah

Midrash Rabbah

Babylonian Talmud

Book of Noah

Rashi

Medieval Testament of Naphtali

Chronicles of Jerahmeel

Book of Jasher

Zohar

The Story of Abraham Our Father from What Happened to Him with Nimrod

The Story of Abraham

A Study (Midrash) of Abraham Our Father

Revelation of Moses

Christian Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham

Clementine Recognitions

Gregory of Nyssa

Book of teh Cave Treasures

John Chrysostom

Jerome

Epiphanius

Philaster of Brescia

Augustine

Commentarium in Genesim

John Malalas

Book of the Rolls

Jacob of Edessa

The Venerable Bede

Alcuin

Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis

Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan

GeorgeSyncellus

De computo

Anonymous Christian Chronicle

Rabanaus Maurus

Feculphus Lexoviensis

Glossa ordinaria

George Hamartolos

Angelomus Luxoviensis

ICatena Severi

Syriac Commentary on Genesis

Sa'id ibs Batriq (Eutychius)

Mahbub of Menbidj (Agapius)

Symeon Logothetes

Ibn al-Tayyib

Rupertus Tuitensis

Hugh of St. Victor

Herveus Burgidolensis

Ioannes Zonaras

Michael the Syrian

Michael Glycas

Petrus Comestor

Georgius Cedrenus

Book of the Bee

Bar Hebraeus

Nicophorus Gregoras

Kebra Nagast

Ethiopic Story of Joseph

Bakhayla Mikael (Zosimas)

Armenian Paraphrase of Genesis

Armenian Question

Abel and Other Pieces

Muslim Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham

Qur'an

Ka'b al-Ahbar

Ibn Ishaq

Ishaq ibn Bishr

Al-Bukhari

Al-Ya'qubi

Al-Tabari

Al-Mas'udi

Al-Maqdisi

Al-Tha'labi

Al-Biruni

Al-Tarafi

Al-Kisa'i

Al-Nisaburi

Al-Zamakhshari

Rawandi

Ibn al-Jawzi

Ibn al-Athir

Al-Baidawi

Abu al-Fida

Al-Rabghuzi

Ibn Kathir

Other Muslim Traditions about the Prophet Abraham

Other Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham

Asatir

Vettius Valens

Firmicus Maternus

Falasha Story

Story of Qiqel and the Death of Yahya

Appendices

Appendix A:  Excerpts from the Theban Cache and Other Egyptian Texts

Appendix B:  The Sufi Philosophers and Kolob

Appedix C:  MS Huntington 388

Illustrations

Indexes

Thematic Index

Citation Index

Subject Index

Illustration and Text Credits

About the Editors

About FARMS