De prophetarum vita et obitu liber ab anonymo quodam conscriptus
De prophetarum vita et obitu liber ab anonymo quodam conscriptus, in: Prophetarum vitae fabulosae (q.v.), edited by Schermann, Th., Leipzig, 1907: 68–98.
♦ A collection of legendary traditions concerning the prophets and their burial places, believed by some scholars to depend on Jewish tradition from the Second Temple period: see P.W. van der Horst, Japheth in the Tents of Shem, Leuven 2002, pp. 119–137. If so, this anonymous Christian recension would be one of the earliest; one MS ascribes it to Origen in the first half of the third century. But according to D. Satran, in Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine: Reassessing the ‘Lives of the Prophets’ (Leiden 1995), the earliest recensions were compiled by Christians in the fourth century.
♦ A collection of legendary traditions concerning the prophets and their burial places, believed by some scholars to depend on Jewish tradition from the Second Temple period: see P.W. van der Horst, Japheth in the Tents of Shem, Leuven 2002, pp. 119–137. If so, this anonymous Christian recension would be one of the earliest; one MS ascribes it to Origen in the first half of the third century. But according to D. Satran, in Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine: Reassessing the ‘Lives of the Prophets’ (Leiden 1995), the earliest recensions were compiled by Christians in the fourth century.