ANCIENT JEWISH ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEXUALITY: A STUDY OF ANCIENT JEWISH ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEXUALITY AS EXPRESSED IN THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHSEron, Lewis John
Origins and Patriarchs The origins of Israel trace back to the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God called Abraham from Ur of the Chaldeans, promising him that he would be the father of a great nation (Genesis 12:1-3). Jacob, later named Israel, had twelve sons who became the...
and in very limited fashion from various sources; for instance, for virginity in Judaism, he incorporates passages from the Hebrew scriptures (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy), rabbinic literature, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Dead Sea scrolls....
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, pseudepigraphal work (not in any biblical canon) purporting to present the last words of the 12 sons of Jacob—founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. The book is an imitation of the “blessing of Jacob” described in chapter 49 of Genesis, but, unlike ...
The use of sacred clothing closely related to that of the LDS Temple is indicated in numerous ancient documents that Joseph Smith did not have access to. One example is found in the description of the priestly initiation of Levi in one of the second-century B.C. Testaments of the Twelve ...
and in very limited fashion from various sources; for instance, for virginity in Judaism, he incorporates passages from the Hebrew scriptures (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy), rabbinic literature, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Dead Sea scrolls....