The Lives of the Prophets: Greek Text and Translation

by Charles Cutler Torrey

The ancient Jewish traditions here published have not been as well known as they deserve to be. Eberhard Nestle in his Marginalien und Materialien, a work to which constant reference will be made in the following pages, spoke of the neglect of this little collection of legends during ""more than a century and a half""; this was in 1893. The half century which has elapsed since that date has seen a most important advance in the scientific study of the Lives, a gain which is largely the fruit of Nestle's own labors, but is chiefly embodied in Theodor Schermann's admirable collection and presentation of the extant material. All the hard work preliminary to an edition of the Greek text was thus accomplished.

58 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Cutler Torrey (20 December 1863 – 12 November 1956)[1] was an American historian, archaeologist and scholar.

Career
He is known for, presenting through his books, manuscript evidence supporting alternate views on the origins of Christian and Islamic religious texts. He founded the American School of Archaeology at Jerusalem in 1901.[2]

Torrey taught Semitic languages at the Andover Theological Seminary (1892–1900) and Yale University (1900–32). He countered certain parts of the Biblical interpretation of Catholic theologian, Albert Condamin, of the Book of Jeremiah.[3]

Some of Torrey's studies are included in The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book, edited by Ibn Warraq.

From Brittanica dot com: Charles Cutler Torrey (born Dec. 20, 1863, East Hardwick, Vt., U.S.—died Nov. 12, 1956, Chicago) U.S. Semitic scholar who held independent and stimulating views on certain biblical problems.

Reviews

[Brandon H.]

This is a really short book that could qualify as a booklet. It belongs in the Old Testament Apocrypha. I found it interesting though I take its claims with a grain of salt. It gives a few more details to the lives of 23 Old Testament prophets, including where they born, where they died or were buried and the things they (supposedly) did that didn't make it into the canonized books of the Bible.

For example, Obadiah - "He was from the region of Shechem, of the field of Beth-hakkerem. He was a pupil of Elijah, and having done much in his service he was saved from death by him. He was that third captain of the fifty whom Elijah spared, and went down with him to Ahaziah. Afterward, leaving the service of the king, he became a prophet, and upon his death, he was buried with his fathers." Pg 41

[Briana Grenert]

Useful introduction and footnotes.
Amazing stories! Jonah as the child Elijah raised, Isaiah sawed in half (classic!), Malachi a beauty queen! Gotta love it. Nice to have both the Greek and a translation.

[Santiago González (puntoartica)]

Narraciones breves de principalmente las muertes (casi todo versiones extrabíblicas) y localización del sepulcro de los profetas del AT. Como dice el traductor es muy interesante para ver el sentir judío de la época de Jesús y en la que se escribió el NT.

[Fede Boccacci]

Un apócrifo del Antiguo Testamento del siglo I dC, que describe (como su título original lo dice) los nombre de los profetas, de dónde son, dónde murieron, cómo y dónde están enterrados.