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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...
2 SURVEY OF THE BOOK OF JUBILEES The survey of Jubilees that follows aims to clarify the meaning of the text and to call attention to the differences between Jubilees and Genesis-Exodus in order to bring out the special emphases of the book. Jubilees 1: An Introduction to the Bible Jubilees, unlike Genesis, opens with an introduction so that the creation story is not what the reader encounters first. Rather, the initial words of the book depict a scene on Mt Sinai where God and Moses are in conversation
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