19 Preface صُحُفِ إِبراهيمَ وَموسىٰYusuf AliThe Books of Abraham1 and Moses.2No Book of Abraham has come down to us. But the Old Testament recognises that Abraham was a prophet (Gen. 20:7, 18:17-19). There is a book in Greek, which has been translated by Mr. G.H. Box, called the Testament of Abraham (published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, London, 1927). It seems to be a Greek translation of a Hebrew original. The Greek Text was probably written in the second Christian century, in Egypt, but in its present form it probably goes back only to the 9th or 10th Century. It was popular among the Christians. Perhaps the Jewish Midrash also refers to a Testament of Abraham.The original Revelation of Moses, of which the Present Pentateuch is a surviving recension. See Appendix 2, p. 288-290///. The present Gospels do not come under the definition of the “earliest” Books. Nor could they be called “Books of Jesus”; they were written not by him, but about him, and long after his death.