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The biblical manuscripts found at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, reflect a spectrum of text movement from authoritative scriptural traditions to completely new compositions. Treating six major groups of texts, she shows how differences in the texts result from a particular understanding of the work of the scribe—not merely to copy but also to interpret, update, and make relevant the...

However, in Leviticus the jubilee is the 50th year, following a period of 49 years; in Jubilees the jubilee is the 49-year period.18 Thus the composer can give the date formula for any event and the reader can calculate the year since the foundation of the earth in which it occurred. For example, when Jacob arrives at Bethel for the first time (Gen 28:10–22), Jubilees gives the following date formula: “Jacob left the well of the oath to go to Haran during the first year of the second week of the
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