Nearly all scholars focusing on the Apocalypse of Abraham agree that the text originated in Palestine. The reason for this is generally quite simple: on the one hand, the text refers directly to the destruction of the Second Temple, and on the other hand, its storyline has a very strong “Jewish” character. I question the plausibility of this argument. The literary treatment of Jerusalem, the use of Exodus motifs, as well as the role of the cult in the Apocalypse of Abraham differ substantially from other works that were written more likely in the region around Jerusalem. Instead, it is more reasonable to regard the text as a response to the invasion of foreign cults into synagogal structures in a diaspora context. Although it is not possible to locate the text with any certainty, I tentatively propose the area around Alexandria as its place of origin.
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Vgl. dazu Ryszard Rubinkiewicz, “Apocalypse of Abraham: A New Translation and Introduction,” in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, ed. James H. Charlesworth (Garden City: Doubleday, 1983), 681–705.
Nikolaj Savvič Tikonravov, Pamjatniki otrečennoj russkoj literatury (Sankt Petersburg, 1868; repr., London: Variorum Reprints, 1972).
Vgl. dazu Aurelio de Santos Otero, “Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Apokalypse Abrahams,” in The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity, ed. Lorenzo DiTommaso and Christfried Böttrich; tsaj 40 (Tübingen: Mohr, 2011), 389–406.
Paul Rießler, Altjüdisches Schrifttum außerhalb der Bibel (Augsburg: Filser, 1928).
Vgl. dazu Stefan Pfeiffer, “Die alexandrinischen Juden im Spannungsfeld von griechischer Bürgerschaft und römischer Zentralherrschaft: Der Krieg des Jahres 66 n. Chr. in Alexandria,” Klio 90 (2008): 387–402.
Vgl. dazu Alexey A. Orlov, “The Fallen Trees: Arboreal Metaphors and Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham,” in Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha, ed. Orlov; svtp 23 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 75–90; ferner Orlov, “The Pillar of the World: The Eschatological Role of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” in Selected Studies, 91–110.
Vgl. dazu Benjamin Wold, “Revelation 16 and the Eschatological Use of Exodus Plagues,” in Eschatologie – Eschatology: The Sixth Durham-Tübingen Research Symposium: Eschatology in Old Testament, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity : Tübingen, September 2009, ed. Hans-Joachim Eckstein et al.; wunt 1.272 (Tübingen: Mohr, 2011), 249–66; Wold, “Revelation’s Plague Septets: New Exodus and Exile,” in Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament, ed. Florentino García Martínez; stdj 85 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 279–97.
Vgl. dazu Victor A. Tcherikover, Corpus Papyrorum Iudaicarum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957), 82; ferner Pfeiffer, “Juden,” 398 in kritischer Resonanz auf ihn.
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Nearly all scholars focusing on the Apocalypse of Abraham agree that the text originated in Palestine. The reason for this is generally quite simple: on the one hand, the text refers directly to the destruction of the Second Temple, and on the other hand, its storyline has a very strong “Jewish” character. I question the plausibility of this argument. The literary treatment of Jerusalem, the use of Exodus motifs, as well as the role of the cult in the Apocalypse of Abraham differ substantially from other works that were written more likely in the region around Jerusalem. Instead, it is more reasonable to regard the text as a response to the invasion of foreign cults into synagogal structures in a diaspora context. Although it is not possible to locate the text with any certainty, I tentatively propose the area around Alexandria as its place of origin.
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