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The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish retelling of Genesis and the first half of Exodus, was an important work for the community of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This Guide gives an introduction to Jubilees that covers its dating, its textual history and its purpose. It also provides a survey of its theological teachings and themes, and a section-by-section commentary that includes a comparison of its...

1 INTRODUCTION The introduction begins with a short description of the book of Jubilees. A second section is then devoted to a survey of the surviving textual evidence for the book and of the major editions of the text and translations into English, and a third section attempts to situate Jubilees in its historical setting. These introductory sections precede a short commentary on Jubilees. The last part of the book contains studies of several of the major topics suggested by the book and the evidence
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