Jewish apocrypha

Primary text control for Simon's brass-tablet inscription and treasury copies.

Primary text control for the Jason of Cyrene five-book source formula in 2 Maccabees.

Reference page quoting scholarship on Latin-only survival and probable Hebrew original for Biblical Antiquities.

Public-domain sourcebook chapter describing Eldad and Medad as a short book with one certain fragment.

Public-domain sourcebook chapter describing Moses apocrypha, patristic Assumption citations, and the missing Assumption narrative problem.

Primary text control for the Roman senate brass-tablet epistle.

Reference page quoting scholarship on Old Slavonic survival and probable Semitic composition.

Reference page quoting scholarship on patristic quotations and Chester Beatty fragments.

Reference page quoting scholarship on the Martyrdom of Isaiah as a Jewish work within the Ascension composite, with Semitic/Hebrew source-language arguments.

Publisher page summarizing Reeves on Qumran and Manichaean Book of Giants recensions and Jewish Enochic dependence.

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing a lost Hebrew 4 Ezra version, fragmentary Greek survival, and Latin/Syriac/Ethiopic/other translation transmission.

Public-domain sourcebook chapter describing the Prayer of Joseph as a lost book known from line counts and fragments.

Reference page quoting scholarship on lost status, Clement quotation, Coptic fragments, and source-unity questions.

Jewish Encyclopedia entry describing Greek-only survival, probable Hebrew composition, and doubts about later Hebrew fragments.

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing 2 Baruch's lost Hebrew/Aramaic original, complete Syriac witness, and Greek precursor fragments.

Public-domain sourcebook chapter collecting apocryphal and paraphrase traces of Jannes and Mambres traditions.

Primary text control for the seventy hidden books reserved for the wise.

Reference entry stating that all Aramaic and Hebrew texts are lost and extant versions have been used to reconstruct a supposed original.

Harvard Theological Review extract describing Slavonic-only preservation and a likely Aramaic or Hebrew original behind Greek.

Reference page quoting scholarship on 3 Baruch's Greek/Slavonic witnesses, debated original language, Christian interpolation, and missing original conclusion.

Reference page quoting scholarship on probable Hebrew original language, compiler character, Jerusalem provenance, and Christian additions.

Reference page quoting scholarship on Jewish origin with Christian additions, Qumran-related Levi/Naphtali material, and disputed genesis/original language.

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing Hebrew portions, Greek/Syriac/Latin/Ethiopic transmission, and incomplete encoded witness coverage.

Full-text scholarly discussion of Psalm 151's Qumran, Greek, and Syriac transmission, including the A/B Hebrew relationship to the LXX.

An inferred five-book source behind 2 Maccabees, attributed by the prologue to Jason of Cyrene.

A reported brass-tablet inscription and treasury copy set for Simon's honors in 1 Maccabees 14.

A reported Roman senate epistle copied on brass tablets and sent to Jerusalem in 1 Maccabees 8.

A short prophetic book of Eldad and Medad inferred from patristic-list and Hermas quotation traces.

A lost narrative section of the Assumption of Moses inferred from Jude, patristic citations, and line-count imbalance.

A lost Hebrew Vorlage inferred behind the Latin-only Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo.

One or more apocryphal Ezekiel compositions inferred from patristic quotations and Chester Beatty papyrus fragments.

A lost continuous Jewish Book of Giants source layer inferred behind Qumran Aramaic fragments and later Manichaean recensions.

A Jewish Martyrdom of Isaiah source layer inferred within the later composite Ascension of Isaiah.

A lost Hebrew 4 Ezra Vorlage inferred behind fragmentary Greek and fuller Latin transmission.

A lost Prayer of Joseph source inferred from list notices and Origen-preserved fragments about Jacob-Israel.

A Semitic Vorlage inferred behind the Old Slavonic Apocalypse of Abraham manuscript tradition.

An esoteric hidden-book corpus tradition in II Esdras 14, where seventy books are reserved for the wise.

A lost Apocalypse of Zephaniah source tradition inferred from Clement, Sahidic, and Akhmimic traces.

A lost Jannes and Mambres contest narrative inferred from apocryphal references and later paraphrase traces.

A lost Hebrew 1 Maccabees original inferred behind the extant Greek transmission and later non-original Hebrew fragments.

A lost Hebrew or Aramaic 2 Baruch source layer inferred behind the Syriac manuscript and Greek precursor.

A missing original conclusion and earlier textual form inferred behind Greek and Slavonic 3 Baruch witnesses.

A complete Hebrew Jubilees textual form inferred behind partial Hebrew fragments and later translation witnesses.

A Jewish Adam and Eve legend collection inferred behind Greek, Latin, Slavonic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic recensions.

A Jewish source layer inferred behind the extant Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and later Christian additions.

A Semitic Vorlage inferred behind the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob via a lost Greek intermediary.

A probable Hebrew Lives of the Prophets source layer inferred behind recensions with later Christian additions.

A reported archive or library surface in 2 Maccabees, associated with Neemias and collections of royal, prophetic, Davidic, and gift-related writings.