My LORD’s BibleOld Testament Pseudepigrapha
Jewish and early Christian scripture-like writings from the centuries around the New Testament.
The Old Testament pseudepigrapha are religious writings, mostly Jewish and mostly from about 300 BC to AD 200, written in the names of figures like Enoch, Moses, Abraham, Isaiah, and the twelve sons of Jacob. A number were reworked or composed by Christians, such as the Ascension of Isaiah and the Apocalypse of Sedrach. They were widely read in the Second Temple period — the world Jesus and the apostles lived in — and several are quoted or echoed in the New Testament. Jude cites 1 Enoch by name, and 1 Enoch and Jubilees are still part of the Old Testament in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
This collection includes 1 Enoch, Jubilees, 2 Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Ascension of Isaiah, 2 Baruch, the Odes and Psalms of Solomon, the Sibylline Oracles, the first and second books of Adam and Eve, the Letter of Aristeas, 4 Maccabees, and the Story of Ahikar, among others.