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  • Septuagint - Obadiah

    Series Book 40 - Septuagint
    The origin of the Book of Obadiah is also debated to some degree, with some scholars suggesting that the book may date to the Persian era, however, the general view is that it dates to before the fall of Judah to the Babylonians in 587 BCE. The exact identity of Obadiah is debated by scholars, however, the Rabbinical Jewish and Orthodox Christian identification of Obadiah is that he was an Edomite ... Read more

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  • Chronographia - 8ᵗʰ Maccabees

    In 563 CE, a Syrian scholar named John Malálas composed a history of the world subsequently called the Chronographia. The Chronographia was written in Greek, however, John was drawing from both Greek and Syriac sources and created one of the longer historical works of the era. His Chronographia was later translated into several ancient languages, and fragments survive in Georgian and Old Slavonic. ... Read more

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  • Syriac 6ᵗʰ Maccabees

    Martha Shamoni and the Maccabean Martyrs

    In addition to these five books of the Maccabees found within the Peshitta, there is additional Syriac literature associated with the woman and her seven sons, who were tortured to death by King Antiochus. The most famous of these Syriac works is the poem Lady Shamoni and the Maccabean Martyrs, which Western biblical scholars have dubbed 6th Maccabees. The poem goes into more detail regarding the ... Read more

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  • Tale of Sinuhe

    The Tale of Sinuhe, also called the Story of Sanhat, is one of the most popular stories that has survived to the present from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. Dozens of fragments of copies have been found, which is unusual and speaks volumes of how popular it was in the Middle Kingdom. Egyptologists are divided on how much of it is fictional, with some claiming it is a historical text, while others ... Read more

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  • Septuagint - History

    In the mid-3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Israelite scriptures for the Library of Alexandria. This translation later became known as the Septuagint, based on the description of the translation by seventy translators in the Letter of Aristeas. By 132 BC, the Septuagint included all the books later adopted by the Byzantine Orthodox church ... Read more

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  • Syriac Maccabees

    Deuterocanonical Books

    The Syrian tradition churches of the Middle East and South Asia, have maintained several deuterocanonical books that are not included in the Peshitta, the standard Syriac version of the Christian Bible. The Peshitta includes Syriac translations of the four books of the Maccabees found in the Septuagint, along with a 5th book of Maccabees, which is also labelled as the The History Of The ... Read more

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  • Septuagint - Ecclesiastes

    Series Book 30 - Septuagint
    The book of Ecclesiastes is generally attributed to King Solomon, however, he is not mentioned anywhere by name. Within the book the author is mentioned as being someone called the ‘ecclêsiastou’ in Greek, meaning approximately ‘female cleric,’ and qōhelet in Hebrew, possibly meaning "female member of the community." The Masoretic term probably originated in the Egyptian term qảỉ ḥnủt, meaning ... Read more

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  • Septuagint - Habakkuk

    Series Book 43 - Septuagint
    Most scholars accept that Habakkuk was written by a prophet called Habakkuk sometime during the Neo-Babylonian Era, or earlier during the late Neo-Assyrian era when the Babylonians were in revolt. Given that the rebels were not the ancient Chaldeans, but a branch of the Assyrian royal family, it seems unlikely that anyone would have referred to the rebels as Chaldeans. After the Assyrian empire ... Read more

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  • Syriac 7ᵗʰ Maccabees

    The Story of the Lady and her Seven Sons

    In addition to these five books of the Maccabees found within the Peshitta, there is additional Syriac literature associated with the woman and her seven sons, who were tortured to death by King Antiochus. A lesser-known Syriac work is The Story of the Lady and her Seven Sons, which Western biblical scholars have dubbed 7ᵗʰ Maccabees. 7ᵗʰ Maccabees does not appear to have been significantly ... Read more

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  • Septuagint's Proverbs and the Wisdom of Amenemope

    The book of Proverbs was historically attributed to King Solomon, who is explicitly referred to as the author of some of the proverbs within it. A number proverbs are known to have been copied from older collections of proverbs, most notably the Wisdom of Amenemope, which was apparently written by Amenemope son of Kanakht sometime before Pharaoh Akhenaten circa 1350 BCE. The Wisdom of Amenemope is ... Read more

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  • Septuagint - Proverbs

    Series Book 29 - Septuagint
    The Book of Proverbs is generally attributed to King Solomon, who is explicitly referred to as the author of some of the proverbs. A number proverbs are known to have been copied from older collections of proverbs, most notably the Instruction of Amenemope, which was apparently written by Amenemope son of Kanakht sometime during the Ramesside Period between 1300 and 1075 BCE. The Instruction of ... Read more

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  • The Shapira Scrolls

    Moabite Deuteronomy

    The Shapira scrolls, also known as the Shapira manuscript or Moabite Deuteronomy, are a collection of leather strips supposedly discovered in the Arnon Valley of modern Jordan in the 1860s. While they were initially accepted as authentic by the Jewish antiquities dealer Moses Shapira, they were later discredited as forgeries by German and British biblical scholars. Since the discovery of the Dead ... Read more

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