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JOSEPH, PRAYER OF

A Jewish work, apparently dating from the early Christian era. About the same length as the Wisdom of Solomon, it survives only in fragments preserved within the writings of the 3rd-century church father Origen. The few sentences which survive quote Jacob, who purports to have pre-existed as an angelic figure named Israel, one of the most powerful of the creations of God. Jacob reveals, apparently to Joseph, that his famous struggle at Penuel (Gen. 32) was actually against another angelic figure named Uriel, whom he vanquished by calling upon a very special, but unspecified, name of God. The Prayer of Joseph apparently had little impact on later Jewish literature.

Ira Birdwhistell






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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