Genesis Apocryphon

The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) is a retelling and expansion of Genesis, written in Aramaic, found among the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.|||1Q20, a single scroll from Qumran Cave 1, discovered in 1947. Aramaic, badly preserved. First published by Nahman Avigad and Yigael Yadin in 1956.|||Composed in the 2nd or 1st century BCE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||A retelling of Genesis from Lamech to Abraham. Contains expansions, prayers, and hymns not found in the biblical text. Important for understanding Second Temple Jewish biblical interpretation.|||Fitzmyer, J. A. The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave I. Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1971.|||Machiela, D. A. The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon. Brill, 2009.|||Avigad, N., & Yadin, Y. A Genesis Apocryphon. Magnes Press, 1956.|||The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls (Israel Museum)|https://dss.collections.imj.org.il/|View the Genesis Apocryphon scroll in high resolution.;; Wikipedia — Genesis Apocryphon|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Apocryphon|Background and scholarship.|||" And I, Lamech, was afraid, and I fled to my father Methuselah." — Genesis Apocryphon 2:1