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Ancient account of the lives of the prophets from the Tanakh, surviving in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic manuscripts For Islamic stories of the prophets, see Qisas Al-Anbiya .1 The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the prophets from the Old Testament . It is not regarded as scripture by any Jewish or Christian denomination. The work may have been known by the author of some of the Pauline Epistles , as there are similarities in the descriptions of the fates of the prophets, although without naming the individuals concerned.
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The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the prophets from the Old Testament . It is not regarded as scripture by any Jewish or Christian denomination. The work may have been known by the author of some of the Pauline Epistles , as there are similarities in the descriptions of the fates of the prophets, although without naming the individuals concerned.
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The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the prophets from the Old Testament . It is not regarded as scripture by any Jewish or Christian denomination. The work may have been known by the author of some of the Pauline Epistles , as there are similarities in the descriptions of the fates of the prophets, although without naming the individuals concerned.
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Ancient account of the lives of the Old Testament prophets For Islamic stories of the prophets, see Qisas al-Anbiya . The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the prophets of the Old Testament . It is not regarded as scripture by any Jewish or Christian denomination. The work may have been known by the author of some of the Pauline epistles , as there are similarities in the descriptions of the fates of the prophets, although without naming the individuals concerned. Start of the Lives in a 13th-century manuscript now in Vienna
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ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the prophets from the old testament
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apocryphal set of manuscripts written largely in greek during middle antiquity as an interpretation of the live
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