Assumption of Moses. It still exists, but unfortunately the part of the book Jude quotes is missing. A number of other early Christian works refer to it, and Richard Bauckham has attempted a reconstruction.9 Although the story is alien to us, it would have been very familiar to Jude’s readers. In the story, Satan is doing the work for which he is rightly named ‘the Accuser’,10 for he is accusing Moses, presumably of the murder of the Egyptian and his later angry disobedience.11 Moses is being accused