Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

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The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: ancient Jewish texts composed during the Second Temple period that, while not included in the canonical Hebrew Bible, preserve invaluable traditions about angels, the afterlife, and the end of days.

Terah Among the Mothers

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:22

We often think of them as just labels, but sometimes, they carry a whole story within them, a whisper of the past echoing into the present. Take the name Terah, for instance. It so...

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Abraham's Prayer and Avram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:26

That’s kind of the vibe we get when we look at the early life of Abraham, or Avram as he was known then. to the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating ancient Jewish text that expands on ...

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Abram in Battle and Abraham

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:31

Let me tell you a story from the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on stories from the Torah. It’s sowing season. The time when farmers scatter seeds, entrustin...

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Abram's Transgression

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:36

The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered scripture by some but not included in the standard Jewish or Christian Bibles, gives us a glimpse into just such a story, focusi...

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Account of Abraham

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:1

We often think of it as a slow, gradual process. But what if I told you there's a story that credits Abraham with being the original agricultural innovator? It’s a fascinating idea...

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Foundations of Being and Worship

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:4

The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text, grapples with this very human tendency in its own powerful way. Chapter 12 dives right into a crucial moment of religious awakening, a...

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Joseph the Ruler

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:8

That tension, that agonizing silence in the face of wrong, that’s the heart of our story today, drawn from the Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genes...

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Moses's Offering and Abram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:12

Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories from Genesis and Exodus, but with some… shall we say, interesting additions. It's considered pseu...

Terah and the Promised Land

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:16

The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered canonical by some but excluded from the Hebrew Bible, gives us a glimpse. It paints a vivid picture of Terah, Abraham’s father, ...

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