The Apocryphon of Ezekiel is an

apocrypha Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. The word ''apocryphal'' (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings which were kept secret because they were the vehicles of esoteric knowledge considered ...

l book, written in the style of the Old Testament, as revelations of Ezekiel. It survives only in five fragments including quotations in writings by Epiphanius,

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Chester Beatty Papyri The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri or simply the Chester Beatty Papyri are a group of early papyrus manuscripts of biblical texts. The manuscripts are in Greek and are of Christian origin. There are eleven manuscripts in the group, seven con ...

185. It is likely to have been composed c. 50 BC – 50 AD, although some scholars suggest a date closer to 7 AD. The largest fragment tells of a king who holds a feast to which he invites everyone except two beggars, a blind man and a cripple. The two are angry and determine to have their revenge: the cripple sits on the blind man's shoulders, and together they damage the king's orchard, but the king discovers what they have done and punishes them both. The moral of the story, according to the narrator, is that this proves the resurrection of the body, since soul and body must function together.

Pseudo-Ezekiel Also known as 4QPseudo-Ezekiel, and referred to in older reference sources as 4QSecond Ezekiel, Pseudo-Ezekiel is a fragmentary, pseudepigraphic, Hebrew text found in Cave 4 at Qumran, and belongs to the cache of manuscripts popularly known as the ...

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, is possibly further fragments of this text, or it may be a different work concerning Ezekiel, but it is unclear.

Bibliography

W. Milton Timmons, "Everything About the Bible That You Never Had Time to Look Up", p. 192Travis Darren Trost, "Who Should Be King in Israel?", p. 157Mercer dictionary of the Bible: Ezekiel, p. 283

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