Watch and Listen to The Apocalypse of Abraham, Chapters 4-5

I wanted to share with you a video I made recently for my YouTube channel. I created several similar videos where I like to present samples of ancient Jewish compositions people might have never read that I have translated. I decided to put them up on YouTube because videos allow me to dramatize the text a little, which elevates the experience beyond just simple reading of the text. If you are not familiar, The Apocalypse of Abraham (התגלות אברהם, hitgalut Avraham) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic text that scholars estimate was composed sometime between 70 CE and 150 CE. Like many midrash stories about Abraham, it extols faith in one powerful and very real personal God.

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The Apocalypse of Abraham: New Translation

The Apocalypse of Abraham (התגלות אברהם, Hitgalut Avraham) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic text believed to have been written between 70 and 150 CE. While the surviving manuscripts are in Old Slavonic, it is widely accepted that the original composition was in a Semitic language, evident from the presence of

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The Apocalypse of Abraham is also one of several shorter translations included in my “Unheard Voices of Hebrew Kings and Prophets” book. Others are the Prayer of Manasseh, the Book of Baruch, the Psalms of Solomon, the Testament of Moses, the Lives of the Prophets, the Apocalypse of Moses… You can find the New Translation here!