My LORD’s BibleThe Apocalypse of Abraham 1
Pseudonymously attributed to the patriarch Abraham; actual author unknown, a Jewish apocalyptic work usually dated to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD, written in the shadow of the Second Temple's destruction. Survives complete only in Old Church Slavonic. The first part retells, in vivid folktale form, Abraham's rejection of his father Terah's idols; the second is a heavenly-ascent apocalypse in which Abraham, guided by the angel Jaoel, beholds the divine throne, the fall of Adam and Eve, and a vision of Israel's future suffering and final vindication.
1On the day when I planed the gods of my father Terah and the gods of Nahor his brother, when I was searching as to who the Mighty God in truth is — I, Abraham, at the time when it fell to my lot, when I fulfilled the services [the sacrifices] of my father Terah to his gods of wood and stone, gold and silver, brass and iron; having entered into their temple for service, I found the god whose name was Merumath (which was) hewn out of stone, fallen forward at the feet of the iron god Nahon.
2And it came to pass, when I saw it, my heart was perplexed, and I considered in my mind that I should not be able to bring him back to his place, I, Abraham, alone, because he was heavy, being of a large stone, and I went forth and made it known to my father.
3And he entered with me, and when both of us moved him (the god) forward, so that we might bring him back to his place, his head fell from him while I was still holding him by the head.
4And it came to pass, when my father saw that the head of Merumath had fallen from him, he said to me: "Abraham!"
5And I said: "Here am I."
7And I brought it to him.
8And he hewed aright another Merumath out of another stone, without head, and the head which had been thrown down from Merumath he placed upon it, and the rest of Merumath he shattered.