Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Gen. xxix. 35 . [The name = "Praise". So Gen. xlix. 3 .]

In c. 5 we find this name, with a slight variety of spelling, as that of a place over which this king may have ruled. It is doubtless equivalent to the Hebrew Tappuah , a name of several cities mentioned in the Old Testament. See Josh. xv. 34; xvi. 8; xvii. 8; 1 Chron. ii. 43 . Cf. Thapha, Jubilees , 34.

Cd. Oxon. reads ἑτέραν ; but cf. Aresa, Jubilees , 34.

Cf. c. 12; also Chezib ( Gen. xxxviii. 5 ), Chozeba ( 1 Chron. iv. 22 ), and Achzib ( Josh. xv. 44; Mic. i. 14 ), all of which are probably different names for the same place, and all connected with Judah.

Cf. Selo, Jubilees, l.c .

Cf. 1 Chron. xi. 36 . [Here the translator supplies a note of doubt—an interrogation-point.]

Cd. Oxon. reads Γαᾶς πόλις βασιλέων . Cf. Josh. xxiv. 30; Judg. ii. 9; 2 Sam. xxiii. 30 . Cf. also “Gaiz,” Jubilees, l.c .

The Timnah of the Old Testament, which name is, however, borne by several places. Most probably it is the Timnah near Bethshemesh, on the north frontier of Judah, in the neighbourhood, that is, of many of the other localities mentioned in the Testaments . This may be the same as the Timnathah on the Danite frontier ( Josh. xix. 43 ), and with the Timnathah where Samson’s wife dwelt ( Judg. xiv. 1 sqq ). The geographical position of Timnath-serah is against the allusion being to it here. Cf., however, Jubilees , c. 34, where Thamnathares is one of the hostile towns.

Cf. Robel, Jubilees, l.c.

Cf. Gen. xxxviii. 1 .

Cd. Oxon. ἐν ᾽Ανονιράμ , probably per incuriam scribæ , for ἐπάνω ᾽Ιράμ

This seems to arise from the wish to disconnect Israel as far as possible from non-Shemite associations. Cf. the Targum of Onkelos on Gen. xxxviii. 6 . “Judah took a wife for Er, his first-born, a daughter of the great Shem , whose name was Tamar.”

διέφθειρε δὲ τὸ σπέρμα ἐπὶ τὴν γὴν

[ Herod . i., cap. 199; Baruch vi. 43 .]

[To this section Lardner objects. But compare Gen. xxxviii. 12 .]

Cd. Oxon. here reads the additional clause ζημιούμενος οὐκ αἰσθάνεται καὶ ἄδοξον οὐκ αἰσχύνεται. Κἂν γάρ τις βασιλεύσῃ, πορνεύων —perhaps omitted from Cd. Cant. through the homœoteleuton.

Cd. Oxon. omits the negative. The βασίλεια will then be that from which the man falls by his sin.

Cd. Oxon. reads τί δὲ λέγω ; μηδ᾽ ὅλως πίνετε , which seems much more suitable to the context.

[ 1 Kings xi. 1, and ver. 11 .]

[ Num. xv. 25 and Acts iii. 17 .]

[See cap. 13, p. 19, supra .]

Cd. Oxon. omits the whole of this chapter.

[ Rom. xi. 26 .]

The reading of Cd. Oxon. is doubtless to be preferred, which joins κλῄδοσι και δαίμοσι πλάνης to what precedes

[ Eccles. ii. 8; Ecclus. ix. 4 .]

[ Prov. viii. 31 .]

Cd. Oxon. omits from here to end of c. 25.

[ Eph. iii. 10 .]

[ 2 Macc. vii. 9–36 and Heb. xi. 35 .]

i.e., for the purpose of embalmment.