Assumption of Moses

Abstract

The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish writing from the first century CE , presumably composed in Judaea. Some scholars also refer to it as the Testament of Moses . It is preserved only in a fragmentary Latin palimpsest from the fifth or sixth century, as well as in a small number of quotations in early Christian literature (including the New Testament letter of Jude); these quotations guarantee the identification of the writing as the Assumption of Moses ‐in the manuscript itself, the title is lost.