Intertestamental

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Old Testament Apocrypha

Sirach (a.k.a. Ecclesiasticus)

1:3-4 — example of a Creation text in wisdom literature: Wisdom was created "before the beginning" (cf. Proverbs 8)

23:19 — (one) ancient concept of sight

24:1-9 — Wisdom created "before the beginning" and eternal

25:16-24 — Eve to blame for bringing death into the world

40:1 — earth, the mother of us all

42:9-14 — Woman the bringer of shame and disgrace

43:23-25 — Appropriation of ANE mythology

2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees 7:28 — Creatio ex nihilo

Prayer of Manasseh

Prayer of Manasseh 1-4 — A Creation Record: The Primal Sea, Appropriation of ANE mythology

4 Ezra (a.k.a. 2 Esdras)

2 Esdras 6:47-52 — Leviathan and Behemoth created on the 5th Day

2 Esdras 7:116-126 — The Fall, immortal soul, Paradise and punishment after death

Psalms of Solomon

(The book Psalms of Solomon was in the LXX and some copies of the Peshitta — see at Wikipedia and Jewish Encyclopedia.)

2:29-34 — the Dragon in the sea

Pseudepigrapha

Book of Jubilees

Jubilees 4:9-16 — Primordial Incest