Apocalypse of Zephaniah

The Apocalypse of Zephaniah (or Apocalypse of Sophonias) is a pseudepigraphic text attributed to the Biblical prophet Zephaniah. It describes an otherworldly journey taken by Zephaniah where an angel reveals secrets of people's fates after their death, and is a work of apocalyptic literature. It is not the same as the Book of Zephaniah, a canonical work of the Twelve Minor Prophets of Judaism also found in the Christian Old Testament. It is not known for sure if it was originally written by Jews, by Christians, or was an originally Jewish work that was later edited and adapted by Christians. Similarly, the date of authorship is unknown; it may have been written at some point in the 1st century or 2nd century CE, perhaps in Koine Greek in Roman Egypt. Much of the work is lost; only fragments survived into the modern era. The surviving passages are a short possible quotation by Clement of Alexandria, a short fragment in Sahidic Coptic, and a longer fragment in Akhmimic Coptic.