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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

Bible. Apocrypha OT --- Bible -- Reading. --- Testaments of the twelve patriarchs -- Commentaries. --- Testaments of the twelve patriarchs -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- Erzväter. --- Testament. --- Exegese. --- Testaments of the twelve patriarchs --- Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. --- Altes Testament. --- Testamente der zwölf Patriarchen. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.