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The ‘Testament of Abraham’: Problems in Biblical Greek

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Nigel Turner
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Short Studies
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New Testament Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , February 1955 , pp. 219 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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page 219 note 1 In wall paintings, e.g. at Preston Church, Brighton, and in old Church glass, e.g. at Brightwell Baldwin Church, Oxon., and in the Jesse window at Selby Abbey.Google Scholar

page 220 note 1 Moulton, and Milligan, , The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, London, 1930, S.V.Google Scholar

page 220 note 2 C.U.P. edition, p. 90, line 10, to p. 92, line 18.Google Scholar

page 221 note 1 In the Test. Abr. an angel named Dokiel, not Michael, does the weighing. There is no Devil or Virgin Mary to incline the balances for or against the soul. Michael shows Abraham this scene, but himself takes no part in it.Google Scholar

page 221 note 2 Jewish Quarterly Review, 1895, vol. v, pp. 581–606;Google ScholarJewish Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 94.Google Scholar

page 223 note 3 πληροφορεīσθαι, a border-line case, is made less doubtfully Biblical by its occurrence here. Outside the New Testament, the following words from the Test. Abr. seem to me to belong to Jewish Greek:, and some others which are difficult to trace in Greek literature.Google Scholar