Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

By: Robert Kugler

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Paperback | 1 October 2001 | Edition Number 1

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An introduction to the contents of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and to the critical issues in its study, and a fresh reading of the work's rhetoric. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is of especial interest to students of early Judaism and Christianity, though this importance is not always recognized. This collection preserves extra-biblical traditions about the sons of Jacob, it reflects a moral worldview of Jews and Christians around the turn of the era, and it casts light on its authors' eschatological imagination. Robert A. Kugler introduces the student to the Testaments' contents, their relationship to other texts of the era, textual witnesses and sources, and rehearses the debate regarding authorship, compositional history and purpose. He also examines the Testaments from the fresh perspective of rhetorical strategy, asking what sort of theological notions the Testaments would have conjured in the minds of early Jewish and Christian listeners or readers.

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Preface	p. 7
Abbreviations	p. 9
An Introduction to the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs	p. 11
Genre	p. 16
Main Themes	p. 17
Main Figures	p. 20
Relationship with Early Jewish and Christian Texts and Traditions and Hellenistic Thought and Literature	p. 21
Textual Witnesses	p. 25
Source Documents	p. 28
Provenance, Date, Compositional History and Purpose	p. 31
Our Approach to the Testaments	p. 38
A Closer Look at the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Special Characteristics, Critical Points of Interest and Meaning	p. 41
Testament of Reuben	p. 41
Testament of Simeon	p. 44
Testament of Levi	p. 47
Testament of Levi and Aramaic Levi Compared	p. 50
Testament of Judah	p. 57
Testament of Issachar	p. 61
Testament of Zebulun	p. 64
Testament of Dan	p. 67
Testament of Naphtali	p. 71
Testament of Gad	p. 74
Testament of Asher	p. 77
Testament of Joseph	p. 80
Testament of Benjamin	p. 83
Further Reading	p. 86
Exegesis and Theology in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs	p. 88
Echoes in the Testament of Reuben	p. 90
Echoes in the Testament of Simeon	p. 91
Echoes in the Testament of Judah	p. 96
Echoes in the Testament of Dan	p. 97
Echoes in the Testament of Gad	p. 98
Concluding Remarks	p. 99
Further Reading	p. 100
Bibliography	p. 101
Index of References	p. 112
Index of Authors	p. 121
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