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Words of Gad the Seer
The Words of Gad the Seer is a record missing from the biblical canon but mentioned in 1 Chronicles 29:29. Gad was a prophet who operated contemporaneously with King David and the prophet Nathan (1 Sam. 22:5). The translation here provided is from a likely pseudepigraphic book by the same title, extant in the form of a manuscript from the Cochin Jews of India. While the extant manuscript shows features of medieval Kabbalistic thought, recent scholarship suggests the work, in its primal form, originated in the 1st or 2nd century AD, perhaps based on even older material; and the work is clearly Messianic in nature, pointing to the person and work of Christ, even His substitutionary sacrifice and reign (Ch. 1). Chapter 2 is an excoriating rebuke of the replacement theology and self-righteousness of Rome. The rest of the book is a collection of narratives involving King David and his son Solomon. There are also several psalms.
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