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Ladder of Jacob
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pseudepigraphic writing”. Today it says “pseudepigraphic writing of the old testament”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pseudepigraphic reworking of the Old Testament Jacob's”. It now reads “2nd-century Merkabah text”.
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Ladder For other uses, see Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation) . The Ladder of Jacob (Hebrew: Sulam Yaakov סולם יעקב) is a pseudepigraphic writing of the Old Testament . It is usually considered to be part of the apocalyptic literature . The text has been preserved only in Slavonic , and it is clearly a translation from a now lost Greek version. It is not regarded as scripture by Jews or any Christian group.
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pseudepigraphic writing”. Today it says “pseudepigraphic writing of the old testament”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pseudepigraphic reworking of the Old Testament Jacob's”. It now reads “2nd-century Merkabah text”. Read the current article and compare.
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pseudepigraphic writing
Now
pseudepigraphic writing of the old testament
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