Testament of Moses

Assumption of Moses

Anonymous · c. AD 1-30; its prediction of an "insolent king" reigning 34 years is widely read as pointing to Herod the Great, suggesting composition shortly after his death · Judea (Israel) · scripture

Modeled on Deuteronomy's farewell address, this testament has Moses predict Israel's future history down to a thinly veiled Herod, surviving in only a single incomplete 6th-century Latin manuscript translated from a lost Greek version of a lost Hebrew or Aramaic original.