Lives of the Prophets

Lives of the Prophets

The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the authors of the Ketuvim from the Hebrew Bible. It begins with a rather accurate account of what it is attempting to contain::"The names of the prophets, and where they are from, and where they died and how, and where they lie"

Although the Bible says very little about most of the Biblical prophets, there was a growing tradition that some had been martyred. Amongst the deaths that the "Lives of the Prophets" recount are:
*Isaiah by being sawn in two
*Jeremiah by stoning
*Ezekiel by an execution

The work survives only in Christian manuscripts, and it even appears to have been read by the author of some of the Pauline Epistles, since these same fates of prophets are mentioned, although without naming the individuals concerned.


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