Jambres summoning the "shade" of Jannes from Hell with the aid of a book of magic as illustrated in Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1
The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres (also called the Book of Jannes and Jambres) is a Greek text composed between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, probably in Roman Egypt. It is a pseudepigraphic account of the legendary ancient Egyptian magicians Jannes and Jambres, purportedly written by one of Pharaoh's officials. Today, it is usually classified as part of the Old Testament apocrypha.
No complete copy of Jannes and Jambres is known. It survives only in fragments: four fragmentary Greek manuscripts on papyrus and fragmentary translations into Latin, Old English and Ethiopic on parchment. It is also known from literary references. The earliest reference to the text is found in Origen (c. 250), who argued that a passage in the New Testament (specifically, 2 Timothy 3:8) is based on it.
and 11 Related for: Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres information
Jewish and Christian traditions, JannesandJambres (Hebrew: יניס Yannis, ימבריס Yambres) are the names given to magicians mentioned in the Book of Exodus...
Book of Esther (תוספות למגילת אסתר) Additions to Daniel (תוספות לספר דניאל) Apocalypse of Abraham (חזון אחרית הימים של אברהם) ApocryphonofJannesand Jambres...
Red Sea crushed and drowned him, where he was imprisoned by a pillar of water. The Testament of Solomon states that JannesandJambres called upon Abezethibou...
Apocryphon of JannesandJambres, the Lots of the Apostles and the Letters from Jesus to Abgar and from Abgar to Jesus. The various recensions of the Decretum...
has also been proposed that a scene in the ApocryphonofJannesandJambres relaying how the mother ofJannes had a dream in which a sinner enters paradise...
additions to the text, including an excerpt drawn from the ancient ApocryphonofJannesandJambres. In addition, it appears in the Oxford Bodleian Library, Bodleian...
critical edition of the ApocryphonofJannesandJambres. Pietersma, Albert; Wright, Benjamin G., eds. (2007). A New English Translation of the Septuagint...
Global Information