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What is the Book of Jubilees?

What is the Book of Jubilees?

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A second-century-BCE retelling of Genesis where the demons are the ghosts of the Giants, and an angel runs the prosecution.

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Jubilees covers the same ground as Genesis 1 through Exodus 14, but rewrites it: adding chronology, law, and angelic backstory the biblical text leaves out.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Jubilees; J. C. VanderKam, The Book of Jubilees (2001)

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The whole book is presented as a second revelation: God commands "the angel of the presence" to dictate the heavenly tablets to Moses (Jubilees 1:27-2:1).

Imported citation, not independently checked: Jubilees 1:27-2:1

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Jubilees insists on a solar year of exactly 364 days: twelve months plus four "days of remembrance," with the year cleanly divisible by seven into fifty-two weeks (Jubilees 6:23-32).

Imported citation, not independently checked: Jubilees 6:23-32

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Jubilees was composed in Hebrew, translated into Greek, then into Latin and Ge'ez (classical Ethiopic).

Imported citation, not independently checked: J. C. VanderKam, The Book of Jubilees (2001)

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