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Testament of Moses, an early Jewish apocalypse apocalypse (əpŏk`əlĭps) [Gr.
..... Click the link for more information. discovered in 1861 and extant only in an incomplete 6th cent. A.D. Latin manuscript. The original work was probably written in Hebrew in the early 1st cent. A.D. It contains reflections on Jewish history and experiences in Palestine during the 1st and 2d cent. B.C., with allusions to the revolt of the Maccabees Maccabees or Machabees (both: măk`əbēz), Jewish family of the 2d and 1st cent. B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. , the Romans entering (63 B.C.) Jerusalem, and the rise of Herod Antipater (fl. c.65 B.C.) was founder of the family fortune. He was an Idumaean and gave refuge to Hyrcanus II (see Maccabees ), thus gaining a stronghold in Palestine. His son

Antipater (d. 43 B.C.) was favored by Julius Caesar, who made him (c.55 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. the Great. The work, which reflects upon the apocalyptic motifs of the coming of God's Kingdom, contains a narrative of the priest Taxo and his sons, who are martyred as the eschatological age is about to break.

Bibliography

See J. H. Charlesworth, ed., Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Vol. I, 1983).