Old Testament Legends Author:M. R. James M. R. James (1862 - 1936) was a writer and British medieval scholar. His well-known classic ghost stories have a Victorian Christmas theme. Although James is best known for his ghost stories he produced many excellent scholarly works. He is also credited with cataloging libraries at Oxford and Cambridge. Old Testament Legends contains stories fr... more »om lesser known apocryphal books of the Bible. The Preface contains a lot of valuable information. Chapters in the book are: Adam, The Death of Adam and Eve, Abraham, The Story of Aseneth, Joseph's Wife, Job, Solomon and the Demons, The Story of Ebedmelech The Ethiopian, and the Death of Jeremiah, and Ahikar.« less