{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1701.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1701.tlg001.local001","title":"The Testament of Abraham Recension A","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Testamentum Abrahae","authorityName":"TESTAMENTUM ABRAHAE","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1701-testamentum-abrahae/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1701-testamentum-abrahae/","editors":["Montague Rhodes James"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"The Testament of Abraham","edition":null,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press","place":"Cambridge","date":"1892","volume":"2.2","series":"Texts and Studies","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/iau.31858011209131?urlappend=%3Bseq=93%3Bownerid=13510798903868600-99","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Testamentum Abrahae. The Testament of Abraham Recension A. ed. Montague Rhodes James. The Testament of Abraham, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1892. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1701.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ι. Ἔζησεν Ἁβραὰμ τὸ μέτρον τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ, ἔτη ABCDEFR ἐννακόσια ἐνενήκοντα πέντε, πάντα δὲ τὰ ἔτη τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ζήσας ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ καὶ πραότητι καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ, πάνυ ὑπῆρχε φιλόξενος ὁ δίκαιος· πήξας γὰρ τὴν σκηνήν αὐτοῦ ἐν τετραοδίῳ τῆς δρυὸς τῆς Μαμβρῆ, τοὺς πάντας ὑπεδέχετο, πλουσίους καὶ πένητας, βασιλεῖς τε καὶ ἄρχοντας, ἀναπήρους καὶ ἀδυνάτους, φίλους καὶ ξένους, γείτονας καὶ παροδίτας, ἴσον ὑπεδέχετο ὁ ὅσιος καὶ πανίερος καὶ δίκαιος καὶ φιλόξενος Ἁβραάμ. ἔφθασεν δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτον τὸ κοινόν καὶ ἀπαραίτητον τοῦ θανάτου πικρόν ποτήριον, καὶ τὸ ἄδηλον τοῦ βίου πέρας. προσκαλεσάμενος τοίνυν ὁ δεσπότης θεὸς τὸν ἀρχάγγελον αὐτοῦ Μιχαὴλ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν· Κάτελθε, Μιχαὴλ ἀρχιστράτηγε, πρὸς Ἁβραὰμ, καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτὸν περὶ τοῦ θανάτου, ἵνα διατάξεται περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ηὐλόγησα αὐτὸν ὡς τοὺς ἀστέρας A =Par. Gr. 770. B= Cod. Hierosol. S. Sep. 66. C = Cod. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 19. D=Par.…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/#tlg1701-tlg001-local001-20"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1701.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1701/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}