Ladder of Jacob
Anonymous
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Description
A short apocalypse called the Ladder of Jacob survives in Slavonic, retelling the patriarch Jacob's famous dream. Genesis shows Jacob a ladder reaching heaven, with angels going up and down. This later text expands the dream into a full vision.
An angel guides Jacob up the ladder and explains the ages of history to come, with kings, wars, and a final deliverance. The work likely began as a Jewish text and passed through Christian hands. Small as it is, it shows how early readers turned one Bible scene into a map of all history, and it rewards students of the pseudepigrapha.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |