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Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman The Apocalypse of Abraham Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
Kulik, Alexander "Apocalypse of Abraham" in Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman (eds.) Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture The Jewish Publication Society, 2013
Jones, Kenneth R. Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: Apocalypses and Related Pseudepigrapha Brill, 2011
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. Angel Veneration and Christology A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John Mohr Siebeck, 1995
Paulsen-Reed, Amy Elizabeth The Origins of the Apocalypse of Abraham Harvard Divinity School, 2016
Ryken, Leland Dictionary of Biblical Imagery InterVarsity Press, 1998

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The Phoenix 10 Resident Foreigners 19 Chukkim 28 Heavenly Languages 16 Sympathetic Magic 10 Hillel and Shammai 20 Hybrid Creatures 13 The Second Exodus 23 Exodus in Genesis 13 Abraham, Friend of God 16 Kothar wa-Hasis 5 Two Powers in Heaven 19 Wayward Stars 14 Greco-Roman Household Codes 35 Kal Va'chomer 11 God is a Character 29 Ben Sira the Rabbi 8 Masoretic Additions 6 Masoretic Deletions 7 Divine Bodies 88

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