Pseudo-Philo on Dinah as Job’s Wife
And Jacob dwelt in [the land where his father had lived as an alien,] the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1), and Shechem the son of Hamor the Hurrite raped Dinah his daughter and humiliated her (Genesis 34:2). And the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, went in and killed the whole city of them by the sword (Genesis 34:25); and they took their sister Dinah…
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Genesis Rabbah on Dinah as Job’s Wife
Genesis Rabbah 57:4
When did Job live? [ . . . ] R. Abba bar Kahana said: He lived in the time of Jacob. As R. Abba bar Kahana taught: Dinah was the wife of Job, as it is written concerning the wife of Job: You speak…
Jacob and Esau as Christians and Jews
Romans 9:1–18
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed…
Artapanus on Moses
Preparation for the Gospel 9.27
After Joseph and his son Mempsasthenoth died, the king of Egypt also died, and he was succeeded on the throne by his son Palmonothes, who constantly mistreated the Jews. It was he who constructed the…
Philo on Moses
On the Life of Moses 1.5–44 (selections)
I will begin with what is necessarily the right place to begin. Moses was by race a Chaldean, but was born and reared in Egypt, as his ancestors had migrated thither to seek food with their whole…
Pseudo-Philo on Miriam’s Prophecy
Biblical Antiquities 9.10
And the spirit of God came upon Miriam one night, and she saw a dream and told it to her parents in the morning, saying, “I have seen this night, and behold a man in a linen garment stood and said to…
Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael on Miriam’s Prophecy
Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael, Shirata 10
And Miriam the Prophetess [ . . . ] Took (Exodus 15:20). But where do we find that Miriam prophesied: It is merely this: Miriam had said to her father: “You are destined to beget a son who will arise…