the creation of an episode. The hatred that the author of Jubilees feels toward the Edomites—common in texts of this period—leads him to an unbiblical revision of Genesis 33: Jacob kills his brother Esau. In summary, the texts under consideration reveal a technique of making one’s theological point not by means of propositional statements but through the tendentious retelling of traditional stories preserved in the texts that came to be authoritative Scripture. It is a very old technique that has