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Genesis 15 places a smoking furnace among the divided animals as God establishes the covenant. The Apocalypse of Abraham reshapes this smoke into the starting point of Abraham’s ascent, carrying the sacrifice into a revelation in heaven.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Genesis 15:17
Hebrew Bible
14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts. 18 That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
Apocalypse of Abraham 15:1
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 And it came to pass when the sun went down, and behold! a smoke as of a furnace. And the angels who had the portions of the sacrifice ascended from the top of the smoking furnace. 2 And the Angel took me with the right hand and set me on the right wing of the pigeon, and set himself on the left wing of the turtle dove, which (birds) had neither been slaughtered nor divided. 3 And he bore me to the borders of the flaming fire 4 [and we ascended as with many winds to the heaven which was fixed upon the surface.
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Notes and References
“... Cf. Gen. xv. 17 (also xv. 12). ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 35) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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