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Book of Eldad and Modad
Book of Eldad and Modad — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes
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James1920 fragment dossier, printedpage 38
Eldad and Medad Eld ad and Medad {Mod at) was a short book of 400 lines, longer than Ephesians (312), shorter than 2 Corinthians (590). Of it we have one certain fragment. Hernias, who in the Shepherd makes many unacknowledged borrowings, quotes a scripture by name once and once only. In Vision ii. 5 he says : " The Lord is near unto them that turn to Him, as it is written in Eldad and Medad, who prophesied to the people in the wilderness." We cannot doubt that the matter of the book was the
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Recorded completeness: One certain quotation in Hermas with James1920historical context and explicitly conjectural Clement quotations, printed38–40. The conjectures remain identified as uncertain by James, who prefers another source for them. This is a fragment dossier, not the lost400linecompletebook; unrelatedBookofOg excluded. 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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