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Pseudepigrapha (Charles)
The complete fresh-intake Pseudepigrapha proper from R. H. Charles's 1913 scholarly edition: Jubilees, the Letter of Aristeas, the Books of Adam and Eve, the Martyrdom of Isaiah, 1 Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Assumption of Moses, 2 Enoch, 3 Baruch, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, the Psalms of Solomon, 4 Maccabees, the Story of Ahikar, and the Fragments of a Zadokite Work.
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1 EnochThe complete Ethiopic Book of Enoch across its five traditional divisions -- Watchers, Parables, Astronomical Book, Dream-Visions, and Epistle -- in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.2 BaruchThe Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, Jewish visions of the fall of Jerusalem and the world to come, with the appended Epistle of Baruch, in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation.2 EnochEnoch's guided tour through the seven heavens and his final instructions to his sons, from the complete Slavonic recension, translated by Nevill Forbes and R. H. Charles in 1913.3 BaruchBaruch's guided ascent through five heavens after the fall of Jerusalem, in H. Maldwyn Hughes's 1913 translation of the Greek recension, with R. H. Charles's critical introduction condensed.4 EzraThe Jewish apocalypse of Salathiel-Ezra's seven visions on the fall of Jerusalem, the justice of God, and the world to come, in G. H. Box's 1913 critical translation.4 MaccabeesA philosophical discourse arguing that Reason governed by the Law of Moses masters the passions, proved through the martyrdoms of Eleazar and the seven brothers under Antiochus IV, in R. B. Townshend's 1913 translation.Assumption of MosesMoses's final testament to Joshua on the fate of Israel, surviving only in a single damaged sixth-century Latin palimpsest, in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation with lacunae preserved as printed.Books of Adam and EveThe Latin Vita Adae et Evae and the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, R. H. Charles's parallel-column edition of two related retellings of Adam and Eve's life after Eden, in L. S. A. Wells's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.Fragments of a Zadokite WorkR. H. Charles's 1913 edition of the Cairo Genizah Damascus Document, the sectarian Jewish rule-book of the 'Zadokite' penitents who migrated to Damascus, from the two Schechter manuscripts.JubileesThe Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew retelling of Genesis and Exodus as angelic dictation to Moses on Sinai organized into forty-nine-year jubilee periods, in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.Letter of AristeasThe pseudonymous Hellenistic-Jewish letter narrating how seventy-two Jerusalem elders came to Alexandria and translated the Torah into Greek, in H. T. Andrews's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.Martyrdom of IsaiahA Jewish martyrology recounting how the prophet Isaiah, fleeing the apostasy of King Manasseh, was betrayed by the false prophet Belchira and sawn in two, in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation with his critical introduction.Psalms of SolomonEighteen Hebrew psalms of the mid-first-century BC, mourning Pompey's conquest of Jerusalem and looking for a righteous Davidic Messiah, in G. Buchanan Gray's 1913 translation.Story of AhikarThe ancient Near Eastern wisdom tale of Ahikar the vizier, given in its Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, and Ethiopic witnesses, in the Charles 1913 edition's 1913 English translations.Testaments of the Twelve PatriarchsThe deathbed addresses of Jacob's twelve sons -- autobiography, moral exhortation, and prophecy -- in R. H. Charles's 1913 translation, with his critical introduction and two appendices of related fragments.