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The Apostolic Age · c. 70
Biblical Antiquities
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum
Pseudo-Philo
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What it is
A retelling of the Bible from Adam to the death of Saul that fills every silence — naming Cain's wife, giving Jephthah's daughter a lament and a name, inventing whole speeches for judges the book of Judges dismisses in a line.
Why it lasted
Shows what a first-century Jew assumed the Bible said, as distinct from what it says, which is often exactly what a New Testament allusion is reaching for.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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