Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs recounted in the canonical Bible. The "Testament" adds that Reuben spies Bilhah as she bathes in secret; and that when she later becomes drunk, Reuben rapes her. That trope derives from a reading of Genesis 49:4, "wanton as water", as "wanton "in" water", taken from the Book of Jubilees. This theme is also in 2 Samuel 11:2's account of David and Bathsheba. The "Testament" portrays women as the cause of the downfall of the Watcher, and of man in general (excepting Bilhah, in accordance with "Jubilees"). Joseph is on the other hand portrayed as the ideal, for his resistance against
The Lost Bible The novel is under contract with Trident Media group [TMG] and figured on its hot list at the London Book Fair, the largest authors’ rights market in the world. "The Lost Bible" is part of the "Charles Baker Collection". Two more books in this series, "Lincoln’s Best Kept Secret" and "Richard the Third’s Lost Hunch", are in preparation. The "Lost Bible"’s English translator writes: "If Eco plays with the detective story, at the lowest level "The Lost Bible" is an action thriller with the accent on horror, occasionally Gothic. Essentially, though, it’s a conspiracy novel composed of infinitely small puzzle