The great Cambridge scholar of the apocrypha retells for young readers stories that never made it into the Bible: the deaths of Adam and Eve, the testament of Abraham, the romance of Joseph and his Egyptian wife Aseneth, and the sufferings of Job. A witty preface explains what apocryphal means and where these legends come from.
The ghost-story writer M. R. James was also a leading expert on these texts, and his learning shows lightly here. Download the free EPUB.