The course will offer a survey of parabiblical (apocryphal and pseudepigraphic) narratives, in English translation. The analysis of these texts will show how parascriptural traditions were continually transmitted and disseminated, while being subjected to re-interpretation and re-telling in multilingual environments, with cross–cultural transfer of ideas and knowledge. The relationship between apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature and oral tradition will be discussed, along with Koranic parallels. Taken into consideration will also be historiographical sources (Jewish Antiquities of Flavius Josephus, The Universal Chronicles of John Malala, George Synkellos and other Byzantine historians, as well as Muslim Histories of Prophets and Kings). Visual data will also be utilised. It will show how some overarching common narratives function in the cultural landscape of the three Abrahamic religions. The course will be taught in English close