Lives of the Prophets

The Lives of the Prophets is an ancient apocryphal account of the lives of the authors of the Ketuvim from the Hebrew Bible. It begins by explaining its basic purpose to provide: "The names of the prophets, and where they are from, and where they died and how, and where the[ir graves] lie."

Although the Bible says very little about most of the biblical prophets, there was a growing tradition around the turn of the Common Era that some had been martyred. Among the deaths described in the Lives of the Prophets are those of Isaiah by being sawn in two, Jeremiah by stoning, and Ezekiel by a similar execution.

The work survives only in Christian manuscripts, but some of its stories are repeated in Jewish midrashic and Talmudic accounts. Stories of the martyrdom of the prophets appear to have been popular among the Jews of the first century CE and are referred to several times in the New Testament.

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