Jubilees--so called because of its concern with marking
forty-nine-year periods (or "jubilees") in Israel`s history--is an
ancient rewriting of Genesis and the first part of Exodus from the
point of view of an anonymous second-century BCE Jewish author. Its
distinctive perspective-as well as its apparent popularity at
Qumran-make it particularly important for any reconstruction of
early Judaism. James C. VanderKam, the world`s foremost authority
on Jubilees, offers a new translation based on his own critical
editions of all the available textual evidence, including the
Hebrew fragments preserved at Qumran (which he first published in
Discoveries in the Judean Desert, vol. 13), as well as the first
full running commentary on the book in the English language.
Jubilees approaches the book as a rewriting of scripture but also
as a literary work in its own right. The commentary explains the
text and the teachings of the author with comprehensive coverage of
the modern scholarship devoted to them. The introduction sets the
book in its second-century BCE context, traces its sources in the
Bible and in other early Jewish texts, and describes its influence
on Jewish and Christian writers.
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