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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 442 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=25mm, Gew.=644gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 442 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=25mm, Gew.=644gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE APOCALYPSE OF MOSES. It is almost certain that in this Apocalypse we have one of those Jewish apocryphs which, like the Book of Enoch, exercised a formative influence upon the earliest Christianity. For two ideas are prominent in it which have been perpetuated in the younger religion, namely, that of baptism by trine immersion after repentance and forgiveness of sins, and that of the resurrection in the flesh and restoration to the Garden of Eden of the descendants of Adam. The former of these two ideas is conveyed in ch. xxxvii., the latter in chs. xxviii., xxxvii., xxxix. and xliii. The following text of the Apocryph is translated from the ancient Armenian Version, which in turn seems to have been made not from a Greek, but from a Syriac or Ethiopic, or even Arabic text. Thus in ch. xxix. the words "nard" and "cinnamon" are explained respectively as "phajlaseni" and "daraseni," and these synonyms are perhaps Arabic terms, though one of them occurs once in Ethiopic literature, probably as a transliteration. The frequent Syriacisms, however, strongly suggest a Syriac original. The date of the Armenian Version is not easy to assign with any precision, the MS. from which I copied it being as late as the year A.D. 1539. As regards language, however, it is old, and probably anterior to 1000 A.d.; it might even belong to the fifth or sixth century. There is a peculiar use observable in it of the dative for the genitive, which is not characteristic of Armenian in any age, and may, perhaps, reflect the idiom of the language from which the version was made. The Greek Text was first published by Tischendorf in a volume of Apocrypha, under the title of Apocalypse of Moses, from four MSS., of which the earliest belongs to theeleventh century, and is preserved in the library ...<