The stories in this edition are excerpted from Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament. Many illustrations are added and annotated.

In this present book, I am only concerned with the apocryphal stories... Perhaps they were invented, some of them, in answer to questions which had been asked. Some of them were certainly made up in order to explain parts of the Bible which were difficult to understand...

Then again, there are others which are like parables...

Others of these apocryphal books are designed to show how important some special virtue, or how dangerous some particular sin, may be... And many others there are which are merely, one would say, meant to tell us more about the lives and deaths of the great men of the old times than we can learn from the Bible.

Perhaps I have now said enough to show of what sort the tales are that are told in this book--some of them told for the first time in English. They are not true, but they are very old; some of them, I think, are beautiful, and all of them seem to me interesting.

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