The 13th section of the PGM contains what purports to be the 'Eighth Book of Moses.' This is actually a Greco- Egyptian spell book, originally written in Greek, which contains a few Jewish elements. Another major source employed in Fleitman's compilation is the 4th century Jewish grimoire ' Harba de-Moshe (The Sword of Moses),' which had been translated from the Hebrew by the German classical scholar Moses Gaster. Thus Fleitman was the first author who united an openly Afrocentric biography of Moses with a useful collection of ancient spells attributed to Moses, and distributed these ideas to the African-American hoodoo and rootwork community.