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Women Of The
Lost Books
Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs
Bathshua: Daughter of
Barsan, King of Adullam, wife of Judah, a Canaanite woman
Judah:8 Moreover, I had much
cattle, and I had for the chief of my herdsmen Iran the Adullamite.
And when I went to him I saw Barsan, king of Adullam, and he made us
a feast; and he entreated me, and gave me his daughter Bathshua to
wife. She bare me Er, and Onan, and Shelah; and the two of them the
Lord smote that they died childless: for Shelah lived, and his
children are ye. 11
And I knew that the race of Canaan was wicked, but the thoughts of
youth blinded my heart. And when I saw her pouring out wine, in the
drunkenness of wine was I deceived, and I fell before her. And while
I was away, she went and took for Shelah a wife from the land of
Caanan. And when I knew what she had done, I cursed her in the
anguish of my soul, and she also died in the wickedness of her sons.
Tamar: Wife of Er, Onan,
daughter-in-law of Judah who tricked him into giving her a child
Judah:10 After these things, my son
Er took to wife Tamar, from Mesopotamia, a daughter of Aram. Now Er
was wicked, and he doubted concerning Tamar, because she was not of
the land of Canaan. And on the third day an angel of the Lord smote
him in the night, and he had not known her, according to the evil
craftiness of his mother, for he did not wish to have children from
her. In the days of the wedding-feast I espoused Onan to her; and he
also in wickedness knew her not, though he lived with her a year.
And when I threatened him, he lay with her,...according to the
command of his mother, and he also died in his wickedness. And I
wished to give Shelah also to her, but my wife Bathshua suffered it
not; for she bore a spite against Tamar, because she was not of the
daughters of Canaan, as she herself was.
12 And
after these things, while Tamar was a widow, she heard after two
years that I was going up to shear my sheep; then she decked herself
in bridal array, and sat over against the city by the gate. For it
is a law of the Amorites, that she who is about to marry sit in
fornication seven days by the gate. I therefore, being drunk at the
waters of Chozeb, recognised her not by reason of wine; and her
beauty deceived me, through the fashion of her adorning. And I
turned aside to her, and said, I would enter in to thee. And she
said to me, What wilt thou give me? And I gave her my staff, and my
girdle, and my royal crown; and I lay with her, and she conceived. I
then, not knowing what she had done, wished to slay her; but she
privily sent my pledges, and put me to shame. And when I called her,
I heard also the secret words which I spoke when lying with her in
my drunkenness; and I could not slay her, because it was from the
Lord. For I said, Lest haply she did it in subtlety, and received
the pledge from another woman: but I came near her no more till my
death, because I had done this abomination in all Israel. Moreover,
they who were in the city said that there was no bride in the city,
because she came from another place, and sat for awhile in the gate,
and she thought that no one knew that I had gone in to her.
Rachel: Daughter of Laban, a
shepherdess, wife and beloved of Jacob, mother of Joseph and
Benjamin.
Leah: Daughter of Laban, first wife of Jacob
Issachar:1 The record of the words
of Issachar. He called his sons, and said to them: Hearken, my
children, to Issachar your father; give ear to my words, ye who are
beloved of the Lord. I was the fifth son born to Jacob, even the
hire of the mandrakes. For Reuben brought in mandrakes from the
field, and Rachel met him and took them. And Reuben wept, and at his
voice Leah my mother came forth. Now these mandrakes were
sweet-smelling apples which the land of Aram produced on high ground
below a ravine of water. And Rachel said, I will not give them to
thee, for they shall be to me instead of children. Now there were
two apples; and Leaf said, Let it suffice thee that thou hast taken
the husband of my virginity: wilt thou also take these? And she
said, Behold, let Jacob be to thee this night instead of the
mandrakes of thy son. And Leah said to her, Boast not, and vaunt not
thyself; for Jacob is mine, and I am the wife of his youth. But
Rachel said, How so? for to me was he first espoused, and for my
sake he served our father fourteen years. What shall I do to thee,
because the craft and the subtlety of men are increased, and craft
prospereth upon the earth? And were it not so, thou wouldest not now
see the face of Jacob. For thou art not his wife, but in craft wert
taken to him in my stead. And my father deceived me, and removed me
on that night, and suffered me not to see him; for had I been there,
it had not happened thus. And Rachel said, Take one mandrake, and
for the other thou shalt hire him from me for one night. And Jacob
knew Leah, and she conceived and bare me, and on account of the hire
I was called Issachar. 2 Then appeared to Jacob an angel of the
Lord, saying, Two children shall Rachel bear; for she hath refused
company with her husband, and hath chosen continency. And had not
Leah my mother given up the two apples for the sake of his company,
she would have borne eight sons; and for this thing she bare six,
and Rachel two: because on account of the mandrakes the Lord visited
her. For He knew that for the sake of children she wished to company
with Jacob, and not for lust of pleasure.For she went further, and
on the morrow too gave up Jacob that she might receive also the
other mandrake. Therefore the Lord hearkened to Rachel because of
the mandrakes: for though she desired them, she ate them not, but
brought them to the priest of the Most High who was at that time,
and offered them up in the house of the Lord.
Benjamin:1
The record of the words of Benjamin, which he
set forth to his sons, after he had lived a hundred and twenty
years. And he kissed them, and said: As Isaac was born to Abraham in
his hundredth year, so also was I to Jacob. Now since Rachel died in
giving me birth, I had no milk; therefore I was suckled by Bilhah
her handmaid. For Rachel remained barren for twelve years after that
she had borne Joseph: and she prayed the Lord with fasting twelve
days, and she conceived and bare me. For our father loved Rachel
dearly, and prayed that he might see two sons born from her:
therefore was I called the son of days, which is Benjamin.
Aena: Daughter of
Rotheus, mother Zilpha and Bilah
Naphtali1: And Rotheus was of the
family of Abraham, a Chaldean, fearing God, free-born and noble; and
he was taken captive, and was bought by Laban; and he gave him Aena
his handmaid to wife, and she bore a daughter, and called her Zilpah,
after the name of the village in which he had been taken captive.
And next she bore Bilhah, saying, My daughter is eager after what is
new, for immediately that she was born she was eager for the breast.
Asenath: Daughter of
the priest of Heliopolis, wife of Joseph
Joseph:69 For, behold, ye see that
out of my humility and long-suffering I took unto wife the daughter
of the priest of Heliopolis.
The
Apocalypse of Adam
Eve: Adam’s mate,
mother of all living
Apoc Adam: Listen to my words, my
son Seth. When God had created me out of the earth, along with Eve,
your mother, I went about with her in a glory which she had seen in
the aeon from which we had come forth. She taught me a word of
knowledge of the eternal God. And we resembled the great eternal
angels, for we were higher than the god who had created us and the
powers with him, whom we did not know. And the glory in our heart(s)
left us, me and your mother Eve, along with the first knowledge that
breathed within us. And it (glory) fled from us; it entered into
[...] great [...] which had come forth, not from this aeon from
which we had come forth, I and Eve your mother. (For more on Eve,
please read The Life of Adam and Eve)
The
Teachings of Addaeus the Apostle
Augustin: Mother of
King Abgar Shalmath: Daughter of King Abgar Meherdath: Wife of King
Abgar
Addaeus: And he related before
Abgar the king, and before his princes and his nobles, and before
Augustin, Abgar's mother, and before Shalmath, the daughter of
Meherdath, Abgar's wife, the signs of our Lord, and His wonders, and
the glorious mighty-works which He did, and His divine exploits, and
His ascension to His Father; and how they had received power and
authority at the same time that He was received up-by which same
power it was that he had healed Abgar, and Abdu son of Abdu, the
second person of his kingdom; and how He informed them that He would
reveal Himself at the end of the ages and at the consummation of all
created things; also of the resuscitation and resurrection which is
to come for all men, and the separation which will be made between
the sheep and the goats, and between the faithful and those who
believe not.
The
Acts and Martyrdom of Andrew
Maximilla: A powerful
and well respected woman of Achaia who prepared Andrew’s body for
burial
Andrew: And after the decease of
the most blessed Andrew the apostle, Maximilla being the most
powerful of the notable women, and continuing among those who had
come, as soon as she learned that the apostle had departed to the
Lord, came up and turned her attention to the cross, along with
Stratocles, taking no heed at all of those standing by, and with
reverence took down the body of the most blessed apostle from the
cross. And when it was evening, bestowing upon him the necessary
care, she prepared the body for burial with costly spices, and aid
it in her own tomb. For she had been parted from AEgeates on account
of his brutal disposition and lawless conduct, having chosen for
herself a holy and quiet life; and having been united to the love of
Christ, she spent her life blessedly along with the brethren.
AEgeates had been very importunate with her, and promised that he
would make her mistress of his wealth; but not having been able to
persuade her, he was greatly enraged, and was determined to make a
public charge against all the people, and to send to Caesar an
accusation against both Maximilla and all the people. And while he
was arranging these things in the presence of his officers, at the
dead of night he rose up, and unseen by all his people, having been
tormented by the devil, he fell down from a great height, and
rolling into the midst of the market-place of the city, breathed his
last.
The
Apocalypsis Mosis
Eve: Wife of Adam,
Mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth
Apoc Mosis:1 This is the story of
Adam and Eve after they had gone out of Paradise. And Adam knew his
wife 2
Eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen
years and two months. And 3 Eve conceived and bare two sons;
Adiaphotos, who is called Cain and Amilabes who is called Abel. (For
much more on Eve, please read The Apocalypsis of Mosis in it’s
entirety.)
The
First Book of Adam and Eve
Eve: Wife of Adam,
mother of all living
(See The First Book of Adam and Eve)
Luluwa: Twin sister to
Cain
1st Adam & Eve 74:6 The Adam
rejoiced at Eve’s deliverance, and also over the children she had
borne him. And Adam ministered to Eve in the cave, until the end of
eight days; when they named the son Cain, and the daughter Luluwa.
7
The meaning of Cain is "hater," because he hated his sister in their
mother’s womb; before they came out of it. Therefore Adam named him
Cain. 8
But Luluwa means "beautiful," because she was more beautiful than
her mother.
Aklia: Twin sister to
Abel
1st Adam & Eve 75:11 When the
children were weaned, Eve again conceived, and when her pregnancy
came to term, she gave birth to another son and daughter. They named
the son Abel and the daughter Aklia.12
Then at the end of forty days, Adam made an offering for the son,
and at the end of eighty days he made another offering for the
daughter, and treated them, as he had previously treated Cain and
his sister Luluwa.
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