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The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs / translated from the editor's Greek text and edited, with introduction, notes, and indices, by R.H. Charles ...
Van Pelt - Medieval Studies Resource Room (405) BS1830.T4 A3 1908
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- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. English. 1908.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xcix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : A. and C. Black, 1908.
- Notes:
- "The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs were written in Hebrew in the later years of John Hyrcanus ... between 109 and 106 ... The re-appearance ... was due to the great Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, in the thirteenth century, who procured from Greece the ms. of this book, which is now in the University library of Cambridge ... Grosseteste translated the book into Latin."--Inrod.
- Contains bibliographies.
- OCLC:
- 61652809
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