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Prayer of Joseph

Prayer of Joseph — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes

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James1920 fragment dossier, printedpage 21

The Prayer of Joseph And now we come to the consideration of a very interesting lost book, the Prayer of Joseph. The lists have told us that it contained iioo lines — as many as are assigned to Wisdom ; and we have certain fragments of it preserved by Origen, which must be transcribed and expounded in detail. The first and longest is in Origen's Commentary upon John, ii. 31.

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Recorded completeness: Surviving Origen quotations and the complete James1920historical discussion, printed21–31. This is a fragment dossier, not the lost1100linecompletePrayer. Retains identification, uncertain allusions and differences between ancient quotations and James’s discussion. HistoricalEnglishwording, quoted source uncertainty, lacunae, Greek/LatinOCR and notes are retained without conjectural spelling repair. Exact chapter-boundary portions selected; no adjacent work is relabelled.. Available reading sections are listed below.

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Classification: Fragmentary ancient Jewish related text
Edition type: Ocr Derived
Original language (catalog): Greek fragments
Reading language: eng
Recorded publication basis: Public domain (recorded basis)
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Provenance: Surviving Origen quotations and the complete James1920historical discussion, printed21–31. This is a fragment dossier, not the lost1100linecompletePrayer. Retains identification, uncertain allusions and differences between ancient quotations and James’s discussion. HistoricalEnglishwording, quoted source uncertainty, lacunae, Greek/LatinOCR and notes are retained without conjectural spelling repair. Exact chapter-boundary portions selected; no adjacent work is relabelled.

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Source attribution and conditions: M.R.James, SPCKLondon1920, printed21–31; https://archive.org/details/lostapocryphaofo00jameuoft

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