Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Anonymous
Book Testament of Asher · Chapter 8
About this work
A collection of farewell discourses attributed to the twelve sons of Jacob, combining ethical exhortation, autobiographical retelling, and eschatological material. The transmitted text preserves Jewish traditions alongside Christian material or interpolation, and its compositional history remains debated.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Date
- Second Temple Jewish material; transmitted form includes later Christian elements.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Genre
- Testamentary Literature / Pseudepigrapha
- Textual language
- Greek textual tradition; earlier sources and layers are debated.
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1908.
And when he had said these things unto them he commanded them, saying: Bury me in Hebron.
And he fell asleep and died at a good old age.
And his sons did as he had commanded them, and they carried him up to Hebron, and buried him with his fathers.